Damien Oliver, who had hinted he may jump to the Bart Cummings trained Magical Miss in the Caulfield feature, announced yesterday he would stick to the Tony McEvoy trained Fields of Omagh.

Oliver partnered the Rubiton gelding to his slashing third in Saturday’s Group Two Turnbull Stakes after having won on the gelding in the Feehan Stakes at Moonee Valley.

Meanwhile, leading Sydney based jockey Jim Cassidy, has jumped at the opportunity to ride the Rick Hore-Lacy trained Dash for Cash, Saturday’s brave runner-up to Northerly in the Turnbull.

Cassidy said he didn’t have to think twice about taking up Hore-Lacy’s offer to ride the son of Secret Savings in the Caulfield Cup.

Bart Cummings is yet to confirm who will partner his Cup fancy Magical Miss now that Oliver has elected to stick with Fields of Omagh. Cummings said there is no "real rush" to find a rider only to add he’d been approached by "a number" of them. Cummings may even reward Andrew Findlay for his recent good form on a number of gallopers including those trained by the Cups king. The saddle on Magical Miss becomes vacant as regular rider Steven Arnold will be unable to make the weight on Saturday week.

Meanwhile, rumours that Greg Childs would dump Sunline in preference to Fields of Omagh in the Cox Plate should the two clash, appear to be just that.

Childs said today he wasn’t planning on giving up the ride aboard the champion daughter of the Victorian based sire Desert Sun.

The two will be chasing their third win together in this year’s $3 million Carlton Draught Cox Plate at Moonee Valley on Saturday fortnight.

PICS - Quentin Lang.

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