Group One winner All Silent will likely have just two race starts this spring, with both in Melbourne.

Co-owner Neville Begg, father of All Silent's trainer Grahame, said this week that the lightly raced rising seven-year-old has been in work at Randwick for some two weeks on the preparation that will take in two of the elite Victorian Spring Racing Carnival sprints.

The plan for All Silent is to have his first race at Moonee Valley in the Group One, WFA Sportingbet Manikato Stakes (1200m) on September 20th, followed by a likely return to Sydney and then a return trip to Melbourne for the Group One, WFA Patinack Farm Classic (1200m) down the straight sprint course at Flemington on Emirates Stakes Day, November 7th.

All Silent was devastating in winning the Patinack Farm Classic last November when he had the same two race spring campaign. Prior to winning last year's race he won the Group Two Gilgai Stakes over 1200m at Flemington on October 3rd.

If All Silent does return to defend his win in the Patinack Farm Classic then it could set up a potentially outstanding clash with rising four-year-old Redoute's Choice mare Melito.

The star of the autumn and early winter racing is also being set for a light two race campaign by trainer Gerald Ryan, with her programme likely to be the Group Two, WFA Schweppes Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on Tatts Cox Plate Day, followed by the Patinack Farm Classic.

All Silent's previous form at Flemington is outstanding with his Group One Emirates Stakes win the previous spring, with only the unplaced effort in the Group One Newmarket Handicap over 1200m this year blotting the record.

Begg said that he and Grahame have put the Newmarket run behind them with the highly respected former trainer commenting that the race was most unusual, on a most unusual day, with a violent storm lashing Flemington as the horses went over the finish line. The storm caused the rest of the meeting to be abandoned and the field in the Newmarket raced towards the storm line as it moved across Flemington with thunder and lightning prior to heavy hail falling.

All Silent went to Hong Kong after last spring but he was unplaced in the Group One Hong Kong International Sprint over 1200m at Sha Tin with observers considering wrong race options the reason for the below par performance.

A further international campaign was undertaken to the Dubai World Cup meeting with All Silent 5th in the Group One Al Quoz Sprint over 1200m at Medyan on March 27th, 2010.

With All Silent spending the best part of two months in quarantine Begg suggested that another international campaign is unlikely.

All Silent, by Belong To Me, has raced just 21 times for eight wins and two second places and stakes of $1,579,975.

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