But the confident Sutton Grange trainer says he wouldn't be doing it if he did not think the filly was capable of being highly competitive.

"She's actually going well, so we thought we'd give her a chance at a stakes race," Stanley said of the three-year-old, who will line up in the Listed Crockett Stakes, the final race on W. S. Cox Plate Day.

"She worked well at Moonee Valley on Tuesday morning. I think she'll run a good race.

"It's a good opportunity. She can always go back to a maiden race any day of the week.

"It's a big step up, but I thought last prep we could have won a race, but she hurt herself, but she's come back good."

Quiller's Delight, a 50-1 chance in early markets, has had just one previous start and finished unplaced in a two-year-old fillies handicap at Flemington in early June.

Stanley insists there has been plenty of improvement since.

The filly, who will be ridden by Brett Prebble, will have plenty of support back home in Bendigo.

A large syndicate of owners includes the members of two syndicates from the One Tree Hill Hotel in Spring Gully.

Quiller's Delight is also nominated for next Wednesday's Bendigo Cup meeting in a 1100m maiden

Stanley hopes to have some representation on Cup day, with 2018 winner Red Alto among three locally-trained nominations in the Group 3 Apiam Bendigo Cup (2400m).

The eight-year-old has not won a race since his stirring 2018 Cup win, but Stanley remains hopeful of a turnaround in form should he gain entry to the field.

Among Stanley's other Cup day nominations, but no certainties to run, include the smart city-winning mare It's Kind Of Magic, Monetizing, Line Of Descent, Dallas Cowboy, Elitist, Diamond Thora, Zoology and Not Alone.

Red Alto is joined in the Cup nominations by the Josh Julius-trained Super Girl, who was scratched from Saturday's Moonee Valley Cup, and Nick Smart's recent Coleraine Cup winner Silent Command.

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