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A close relation to the first stakes performer Luke Price trained will lead the family assault on home turf at Kembla Grange on Saturday.

Lightly-raced three-year-old Slickman will head a two pronged attack for Price and his father Robert when he lines up alongside Las Vegas Girl in the Laura Keevers Memorial Class 1 Handicap (1200m).

Luke (left) and Robert Price. (Pic: Steve Hart

Slickman is a half-brother to Luke Price's former Group 2 placegetter Belle De Coeur, who was his first stable flag bearer in 2013/14 before he joined forces with his dad.

Both are out of the mare Harmony Hall with Belle De Coeur a daughter of Show A Heart and Slickman by Rich Enuff.

Slickman has only had two starts but has shown plenty of promise, winning on debut at Moruya before finishing third behind Sepoy Star in a Class 1 at his home track last start.

"I thought he was really good at home the other day," Price said.

"He has been in work a while now but has trained on well since and we've been really happy with him.

"We've had to be patient with him, he had a few little issues but is a half to Belle De Couer and she was a late bloomer.

"It took to the end of her three year old season to be racing but she proved to be a really quality mare."

Jockey Grant Buckley can reap the benefits of a gun draw on Slickman from barrier three, who is rated a $7.50 chance with TAB to notch up his second victory.

Price has brighter prospects in store for his emerging talent if he can run well again this weekend.

"If he can win on Saturday, I wouldn't be afraid to back him up in town next week," he said.

"I think he is a really nice horse and we might be able to get him in a race like the Four Pillars if he can continue racing as well as he is."

Stablemate Las Vegas Girl is a $51 outsider for the same event and has drawn trickily in barrier 12.

Price would prefer drier ground for the filly however Kembla was still rated a heavy 8 on Friday afternoon.

"She needs a dry track and it's wet everywhere at the moment but we need to run her," Price said.

"We are clutching at straws with her a bit at the moment with the way the tracks are."

Young apprentice Olivia Chambers will pilot Las Vegas Girl.

The Price yard also has good chances across the Kembla Grange card with promising youngster Victory Lane among the stable's most exciting gallopers to line up.

Victory Lane will make his debut in the Locopa Designs 2YO Maiden Handicap (1200m).

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