Second week of Golden Slipper preparations for Scott Spackman and Rocket Tiger while Maddy Collins claims Ardlethan Picnic win

It was a dramatic build-up last week for the connections from paying up late to enter, to being under an 'injury' cloud over the horse's gait and only cleared to run in the $3.5 million dollar slipper on Thursday night.

The saga continued on Saturday morning when Racing NSW abandoned the meeting due to heavy rain, announcing the Slipper and the Sydney autumn carnival would all be pushed back a week.

Rosehill's biggest meeting of the year is now on this Saturday. The final field and barriers for the Slipper remain the same.

At the other end of the scale, Spackman just missed a win in the $8000 Ardlethan Picnic Cup (1600m) on Saturday when Cryfowl ($3) was beaten a nose by topweight Let's Get Animal.

The stable and Noel Penfold also had Tocatchacod run third in the $50,000 class three handicap (1500m) at last Friday's Albury Cup meeting, and Ilovethegame finish fourth in the $80,000 Albury Guineas (1400m).

But the Ardlethan feature vicotry made it two wins in 12 days for young trainer Maddy Collins and her five-year-old which started a $2.50 favourite and just held out Cryfowl.

Let's Get Animal's back-to-back wins has doubled the Collins' tally of career wins in less than a fortnight.

Sydney's carnival changes, meanwhile, will see the Country Championships Final, featuring SDRA qualifiers Another One (Gary Colvin) and Bautista (Donna Scott), now held on Saturday April 10 at Royal Randwick, instead of the Easter weekend.

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