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By Ray Hickson

Trainer Gerald Ryan has put a circle around the $2 million The Invitation as the ideal spring target for talented mare Arctic Glamour.

It’s the 1400m race run on October 26 for fillies and mares which, as the name suggests, is comprised of horses invited into the contest.

Arctic Glamour can take a step toward attracting that invitation in Saturday’s Group 2 $300,000 Ikon Tramway Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.

Ryan, who co-trains with Sterling Alexiou, said 1400m appears to be the four-year-old’s sweet spot so it’s logical to want to focus on suitable races at that trip.

“I think the right 1600m she’d run but 1400m is her go,’’ Ryan said.

“We’ll be sticking to the mares races after this. You go from here to the Golden Pendant, she might race in another race in the middle and hopefully get a run in The Invitation.”

While high profile former WA mare Amelia’s Jewel looms large over the Tramway, Ryan said Arctic Glamour is nicely placed with just 53kg having resumed with an eye-catching second in the Group 2 Missile Stakes (1200m).

Punter’s Intelligence sectional data showed she ran 33.60 for her last 600 as she stretched Schwarz’s neck, she was the only horse to break 34 seconds in the Missile, and her 11.59 last 200m was two lengths faster than anything else.

Arctic Glamour runs second at Randwick on August 10

“She ran really well. She’s well suited at set weights and penalties, she’s got a firm track and she can show what she’s worth,’’ Ryan said.

“Sometimes she can be a bit tardy out of the gates but the other day she jumped well and got squeezed up either side and ended up being further back than what was desired.”

Kerrin McEvoy has partnered Arctic Glamour in nine of her 12 starts but is interstate on Saturday so Ryan wasted no time booking Tyler Schiller to ride in the Tramway.

He’s far from a stranger to the four-year-old despite having not ridden her in a race or trial previously.

“Tyler’s ridden a fair bit of work on her, he comes out and rides work for us whenever we want him to, and he’d ridden her before she even raced,’’ Ryan said.

“Kerrin told us that he was going to be in Melbourne on this day so we spoke to Tyler straight away and he’s come in to ride her a couple of times since.”

Meanwhile, Ryan sent promising three-year-old Just Party around at the Rosehill trials on Thursday as he works out the next step following a cardiac arrhythmia episode in his first-up run.

He started in the market in what was boom filly Autumn Glow’s debut win three weeks ago.

“He passed all the vets but we’re trialling him because we haven’t found the right race for him yet,’’ he said.

“He might run in the Ming Dynasty, we’ll see how he comes through the trial.”

All the fields, form and replays for Saturday’s Randwick meeting