Jockey Glen Boss and trainer Kris Lees left Moonee Valley content on Tuesday morning that star filly Samantha Miss had handled the tight, turning track.
Samantha Miss, with Boss aboard, was given an easy time of it in her first gallop around the Valley, working home the final 400m in 26 seconds.
Lees said Samantha Miss, aiming to become only the second three-year-old filly to ever win the Cox Plate, had no problem adjusting to the Victorian way of going.
"I was happy with her effort. Glen Boss thought she handled it very well considering it was her first time. It was all positive," Lees said. "She wasn't there to run time."
Boss, who has hired a dietician in order to be able to ride Samantha Miss at 47.5kg, said the filly handled herself brilliantly.
"Today she had a good look at the Valley and got a good feel of the surface," he said.
"When she was going 16 (seconds) to the furlong she was really relaxed and had a good look around."
Samantha Miss is the third favourite on $5 (TAB Sportsbet) for the Cox Plate, behind $3.80 co-favourites Princess Coup and Weekend Hussler.
Despite the absence of Pompeii Ruler (injured), Tuesday Joy (bled), Light Fantastic (lost form) and Caulfield Guineas winner Whobegotyou, Lees refused to get his hopes up of winning the race with his filly.
"It's still a very hard race to win. She's got a huge task being a three-year-old filly. Only one filly has won it. It's an enormous task," he said.
"It'll happen one day, hopefully in a fortnight."
But Lees said he had no regrets in bypassing Wednesday's $503,000 Thousand Guineas (1600m), where Samantha Miss, already a dual Group One winner, would have been an overwhelming favourite.
"I just felt she had to do one or the other with the view of going into the Oaks," he said.
"I just thought that one extra run might have been too taxing for her. It's a nice stepping stone into the Oaks."