John O'Shea has Coolmore Classic plans for White Sage Sage advice: trainer John O'Shea is confident. John O'Shea wants to get unbeaten White Sage into the big game come the autumn and that is what this preparation is about. The Reset mare has won all three of her starts convincingly and is a $1.30 favourite at Rosehill on Saturday, but the price is not important to her trainer. For O'Shea it is about placing her right for a long-term goal. "We want to be making sure she gets into the race we have in mind for her in the autumn," he said. We need to be in the game before the autumn. She needs to have a rating that will get her into the Coolmore Classic but on the right weight. The last thing you want to be doing with a mare as good as her is leaving it until her next preparation. White Sage is rated at 81 with a star, meaning the handicappers at Racing NSW will review that benchmark after this run. The four-year-old was impressive when twice winning by big margins in her first preparation and O'Shea believes she is a group 1 mare in the making. She won a maiden at Kembla Grange in May by seven lengths before scoring an emphatic five-length win at Randwick before a spell. Those wins assured a quick rise to a rating of 75. She returned and won by just two lengths, beating Just A Girl and Gamba at Rosehill on Victoria Derby day, earning at least another six rating points. She has 59.5 kilograms to carry in the benchmark 80 for fillies and mares over 1350 metres on Saturday, but that will be offset by Lester Grace's three-kilogram claim. White Sage is expected to keep her unbeaten record intact and lift her rating further. She is the star act at Rosehill on "Girls' Day Out" and O'Shea expects there will be more progressive types doing the same thing before Christmas as trainers eye how to get a run in the rich Championships. "You have to look forward and that means getting it right now," O'Shea said. I would like to get her rating in the mid-80s after this [race] and possibly into the 90s before she goes for a spell. Otherwise you have to have a horse like her too far forward early in her autumn prep because she will need to win races. Getting the rating now makes it easier to get her into the races that we want to target. She will have this run and then, everything going right, we will look for a 1500m race at Rosehill for obvious reasons. That, of course, is the distance of the group 1 Coolmore Classic on the opening day of the Sydney carnival on March 22. O'Shea scratched his other runner at Rosehill, Polarmore, after he had an elevated temperature.