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Santos remains Gai Waterhouse's leading contender for a seventh Golden Slipper after his Skyline Stakes win with Melbourne trainer Mick Price introducing a filly to Sydney as he searches for his first.
The Price-trained Seabrook (NZ) (Hinchinbrook) upset the $4.40 favourite Fiesta in Saturday's Sweet Embrace Stakes to stamp her claims 40 minutes after Santos won his lead-up.
Santos eased slightly in Golden Slipper markets from $9 to $11 with the TAB reacting to Seabrook's win by bringing her in from $51 to $15 for the $3.5 million race in three weeks with Sunlight holding $4.60 favouritism.
Seabrook missed a start in last week's the Group One Blue Diamond Stakes after an unlucky third in the Prelude and Price switched his focus to the Slipper.
"It's a great feeling coming to Sydney and taking their prizes," Price's representative Pat Kearney said.
"We've always had a bit of an opinion of her and it's onwards to the Slipper now."
Hugh Bowman, who rode Seabrook said the soft ground was a new element and the wind was strong.
"There was a head wind which was quite testing," Bowman said.
"But she showed her class and did it the hard way out wide." - AAP