The Kembla trainer finished with a career-high 23 winners for the 2016-17 campaign and is on track to top that total again for the current season.

Bateup currently has 12 winners for 2017-18, adding three to that haul since the New Year.

"It was really a culmination of a couple of years of building the team up," Bateup said.

"It was far and away our best calendar year. We were patient with our yearlings and now have started to reap the rewards.

"We picked up some nice horses along the way too."

Bateup will look to continue to build on her recent form when she takes three runners to Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

She rated Uno Best as her best chance of the afternoon, but admitted she was still getting a handle on the five-year-old as the son of Gonski only arrived in her stable late last year.

"I am still working him out," Bateup said.

"For a gelding that has had more than 20 starts, he still does some stuff wrong when he races.

“He can bit a bit erratic. That's not to say he's not a nice horse.

"Any horse that can win six races from that many starts obviously goes good."

Jockey Jess Taylor will ride Uno Best in the #theraces Benchmark 72 Handicap (1200m). The gelding will likely go forward after drawing favourably in barrier one. 

"He's a big free rolling horse so that's just his style," Bateup said.

"We went forward at his last start [on New Year's Day at Randwick] and we should be able to do that again from a nice gate.

"You'd expect him to be leading or not too far off it."

Bateup also has Halliday Road (race three) and Titaness (race six) at the metropolitan meeting.

The trainer was happy to give Halliday Road a chance in the TAB Benchmark 75 Handicap (1000m) following back-to-back win in country grade. 

“He has gone up another level this prep and deserves his shot in what is a small field,” she said.

Titaness runs in the Schweppes Benchmark 70 Handicap (1300m).