Trainer Michael Freedman is in two minds about where to point talented filly Mumbai Muse in the coming weeks so is looking to Saturday’s Group 2 $300,000 TAB Light Fingers Stakes (1200m) at Randwick as a guide.

A freshen-up has Malkovich poised to rebound in his first black-type assignment of the year.

Trainer Michael Freedman has long said Mumbai Muse would be a major player in the autumn, even before she notched successive stakes wins last spring, and on the evidence of her first appearance for 2024 the filly will be just that.

Richard Litt has repurposed former Godolphin gelding Northumbria into a city winner.

Trainer and jockey quotes after Mumbai Muse takes out the Group 3 The Bachelors Red Roses Stakes at Flemington on Thursday.