Assail, Dothraki step up push for Slipper start "Everything is going well with her and at the moment she will run on Saturday": Assail's trainer Clarry Conners. After having their Magic Millions aspirations turn to dust, Assail and Dothraki will attempt to race into Golden Slipper calculations at Warwick Farm on Saturday. The unbeaten Assail, which was a race-morning scratching from the Magic Millions Classic because of a foot abscess when favourite, will return in the Sweet Embrace Stakes. She had an easy barrier trial win last week, which had trainer Clarry Conners comparing her with one of his four Golden Slipper winners, Burst. "Everything is going well with her and at the moment she will run on Saturday," Conners said. The Sweet Embrace carries a ballot exemption for the winner into the Golden Slipper, which will be run at Rosehill on April 6, and would give Conners the option of running his star in the Magic Night Stakes on March 30. Meanwhile, Gerald Ryan said Dothraki would get the chance to prove he is a Slipper contender in the Skyline Stakes. The son of Mossman was forced out of the Magic Millions by an infection after winning at Canterbury in December. Ryan rates the colt on the same level as Silver Slipper placegetter Charlie Boy on ability but says he lacks the smarts of his stablemate. "He hasn't put on the track what he has shown us on the training track," Ryan said. He has a lot of ability but when it comes to race sense he still doesn't know what he is doing. Dothraki started favourite on debut in the Wyong Magic Millions, won by Assail, after a barrier-trial win. Ryan said a Golden Slipper start would depend on his Skyline run. If he wins on Saturday he is in [the Slipper] but if doesn't, we run in the Pago Pago and head towards the Sires [on April 13]. Meanwhile, Criterion ran his way into the Golden Slipper coming from last to win the Black Opal Stakes at Canberra on Sunday.