Quality filly Samantha Miss will start a spring campaign aimed at enhancing her Group One record when she resumes at Warwick Farm on Saturday.

The Champagne Stakes heroine will line up in the Group Three Silver Shadow Stakes (1200m) for three-year-old fillies.

Samantha Miss hasn’t raced since ending the Sydney triple crown hopes of glamour colt Sebring when she defeated the Golden Slipper winner in the Group One Champagne Stakes at Randwick on May 3.

“Obviously she has a long way to go (this preparation) but she seems to have come back well,” trainer Kris Lees said.

The Silver Shadow is the first leg of the four-race Princess Series which also encompasses the Tea Rose Stakes, the Furious Stakes and the Group One Flight Stakes.

The only filly to complete a clean sweep of the series was Angst in 1993 while champion mare Sunline did not contest the Silver Shadow but won the last three legs.

“If she comes through the series as well as I would expect her to then she’ll head to Melbourne,” Lees said.

Hugh Bowman, who rode Samantha Miss in the Champagne Stakes, will be re-united with the filly on Saturday.

Bowman will also ride the Lees-trained Prince Vilhelm, a former Queensland galloper entered for a minor race at the Warwick Stakes meeting.

Prince Vilhelm producing an eye-catching Sydney midweek run when having his first start for Lees at Canterbury on July 26.

The four-year-old confirmed Saturday plans after working stylishly with Samantha Miss last week.

“There wasn’t a lot between them in the gallop,” Lees said.

Lees, meanwhile, will keep Missile Stakes winner Captain Bax in cotton wool until later in the spring.

“There’s a race for him at Caulfield on Caulfield Cup day and he won’t race again before then,” Lees said.

Captain Bax just failed in his bid to complete an early season weight-for-age double when beaten into second place by Triple Honour in the Premiere Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.
(Source: AAP)