A nervous Stathi Katsidis watched on at Rosehill on Saturday as his Golden Slipper mount Military Rose prepared for her first Sydney start in the Reisling Slipper Trial with Michael Rodd aboard.

Katsidis need not have worried as the Queensland filly toyed with her opposition which included Solar Charged who was the Slipper favourite before Saturday's race.

The Queensland jockey was unable to ride Military Rose in the Reisling due to a careless riding suspension but will be back to partner the unbeaten filly in the $3.5 million Golden Slipper on April 3.

"I was as nervous as hell, it was terrible," Katsidis said.

"I don't get nervous before big races when I'm riding good horses but with having no control over it I got the flutters then."

Katsidis and Rodd are close friends and he was ecstatic as the filly raced to a 2-3/4 length win to extend her unbeaten sequence to five heading into the world's richest race for two-year-olds in a fortnight.

"I just said to Michael that she's an easy filly to ride but I also said she was only about 80 to 85 per cent fit. I told him to look after her and he rode her really well.

"She just dragged herself to the front like she did in the Magic Millions and when they came around the turn I just said, 'gee she's serious today',".

Katsidis has only had two previous rides in the Golden Slipper with his best effort being a seventh placing on Chinchilla Rose in 2007.

After watching the filly destroy her rivals in the Reisling Katsidis now believes only bad luck can stop them from claiming the big one in two weeks time.

In contrast to Katsidis, winning trainer Gillian Heinrich was full of nerves before her hometown race - the Magic Millions Classic at the Gold Coast - in January but said there was no sign of nerves at all on her part at Rosehill.

"I didn't feel any pressure today," Heinrich said.

"It was funny because I know I've got a good filly.

"The Magic Millions was just so special to me and I was nervous before that race, but not today."