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Trainer Robert Quinn believes promising filly La Sagrada is well placed to break her duck at Kembla Grange with his team set to relish ideal wet conditions on Tuesday.

La Sagrada has placed in three of her five starts and gets her chance to get on the board in the Pur Pur Maiden Plate (1600m).

The daughter of Churchill is rated a $6.50 contender on TAB to get her first win and sticks at the mile after a last start second at Goulburn.

La Sagrada (Tom Sherry) heads to the barriers at Newcastle. Image by Bradley Photographers

Quinn is confident she will feature in the finish and can repeat the benefits of a perfect inside draw with Tom Sherry booked to ride.

"I am really looking forward to seeing La Sagrada," Quinn said.

"Everything maps right for her. She has drawn the good gate and it was a good run last time over 1600m at Goulburn.

"She is fourth up now and ready to go. She is a typical Churchill, she is only just starting to mature and coming into herself now.

"I think she has got to be a big chance on her best form."

Quinn said La Sagrada will have no trouble in wet conditions with Kembla rated a Heavy (8) on Monday. The same goes for stablemate Sunchaser ($13) in the Little Lake Midway Benchmark 64 Handicap (2000m).

Sunchaser drops a mile back in grade after only beating a runner home last start in the Group 3 Epona Stakes but jockey Rachel King will have to overcome the tricky barrier 11.

"Sunchaser is dropping back from a race where the bar was set high for her," Quinn said.

"She is back to Benchmark company now and going on her two first up runs over shorter trips, she can run a big race.

"It is a tricky barrier but she won't mind the sting out of the track as well."

Sally Pops ($18) is chasing her first win since her surprise success in the Kembla Grange Provincial-Midway Championships Qualifier last year, which took place at Goulburn on a heavy surface.

Quinn expects the soft ground to help Sally Pops recapture her best in the Pacific Plan Management Benchmark 64 (1300m).

"Sally Pops, all her best form is on wet track bar probably one run in Brisbane," Quinn said.

"With her, she actually ran a huge race at Kembla two starts ago and even her last run at Warwick Farm, the placing might not say so but she was only beaten just over two lengths at the line.

"She is one that is dependent on what is in front of her so she needs a lot of speed so she can close off." Jay Ford pilots Sally Pops.

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