Trainer Jason Warren faces a tough call on the next step for star mare Benedetta after the postponement of the Group 1 Kingsford Smith Cup (1300m) threw her Brisbane campaign into uncertainty.

Originally set to race last Saturday, the Eagle Farm meeting was abandoned early, leaving the $1 million sprint rescheduled for this weekend — a change that complicates Benedetta’s path towards the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m).

“The conundrum for us now is it rules out one of the Group Ones that we had as a target,” Warren said of the change in schedule.

“The 1300 (on Saturday) would have been ideal, we were well-suited at the weights and well-placed.

“But I think it rules out one of the races. Essentially, we have to skip the Kingsford Smith now and go to the Stradbroke or skip the Stradbroke and to the Tatt’s Tiara, which that then impacts on your spring when you’re talking only a matter of weeks in the paddock.”

The Tattersall’s Tiara (1400m), Australia’s final Group 1 of the season, offers $700,000 and is restricted to fillies and mares, run at Eagle Farm on June 28.

Should Warren decide to bypass this Saturday’s race, Benedetta may instead have a light hit-out in a trial later this week to keep her fitness levels up ahead of a possible Stradbroke tilt.

Wherever she heads next, it will be the sixth run of a taxing Group 1 campaign that began in February with a third placing in the Black Caviar Lightning (1000m).

Since then, the daughter of Hellbent has placed second in the William Reid Stakes (1200m), was a hard-luck 10th in the Newmarket Handicap (1200m), and placed fifth and fourth in the All Aged Stakes (1400m) and Doomben 10,000 (1200m) respectively.

This Saturday’s revamped program will include two Group 1 races — the rescheduled Kingsford Smith Cup and the Queensland Oaks — alongside the Queensland Derby and the Listed Helen Coughlan Stakes.