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Trainer Luke Price is hoping wet conditions will play to Aisle Two’s advantage when his promising homebred makes her return on her home patch at Kembla Grange on Saturday.

Kembla copped heavy rain during the week with the track rated a heavy 10 on Friday but clear skies should ensure improving conditions at the provincial meeting.

Aisle Two has never raced on a heavy track but Price, who trains with his father Robert, expects the daughter of Shooting To Win will have no issues with the testing surface.

The lightly-raced three-year-old returns in the Paul Collareda Memorial Maiden Plate (1000m) with Brock Ryan in the saddle.

Trainer Luke Price (Pic: Bradley Photos).

“Aisle Two has come back really good,” Price said.

“She probably just came to the end of it in her first campaign but if she runs up to her first run where she wasn’t far off Beadman and showed an electric turn of foot.

“The 1000m is probably too short for her but the heavy track is going to take the dash out of a few of them and I think she will get through it.

“She has a good barrier and is certainly a filly we have a lot of time for so hopefully she can live up to that expectation.”

Aisle Two was doing her best work late on debut at Kembla Grange in April when finishing 6-1/2 lengths off the winner in a 1000m event.

She went for a spell after finishing midfield in a 1200m affair at Wagga.

Price believes she will be suited when getting over as much as 1400m later in her second preparation.

Whether stablemate Miss Hvar lines up on the same card remains questionable with the mare an acceptor in the Kiama Leagues Club Benchmark 64 Handicap (1200m).

Miss Hvar won her debut at the same venue last preparation but could be saved for another day on the wet track.

“We will look at the nominations for Thursday’s meeting as well,” Price said.

“She won first-up last prep and if you take two of the horses out of it, it’s only a Class 1 race anyway.

“I like her but I just don’t want to start her on a really wet track, first-up this prep.

“I will be guided by how the track dries out but I think she is a horse we will see at her best when she gets out to a mile.”

Ryan is also booked to pilot Miss Hvar.

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