Millar, 64, revealed he had underlying health conditions and would not risk going to the races amid concerns about contracting Covid.

“There’s enough (Covid) here where I live near Port Macquarie, but it’s all over Sydney and I feel safer to stay home at the moment,” Millar said.

“The risk is not worth it so I will book myself for the Golden Slipper.

“But I’ve built a back room here at home which I call the ‘TAB room’ and I’m happy to watch the race on the big screen. This is my man cave.

Sejardan, a son of 2008 Golden Slipper winner Sebring, is the second foal out of Miss Amajardan, a Hinchinbrook daughter that Millar was able to purchase for just $6,500 as a yearling.

Miss Amajardan showed great promise early in her career, but injury prevented her from realizing her potential.

“She won the Romantic Dream Plate and on her next start she won the Victory Vein Plate in class record time at the age of two,” Millar said.

“Then she came home for a spell, but one day she got scared and hit her head.”

Miss Amajardan required surgery, but a tiny bone fragment was impossible to remove, affecting her breathing and impacting her career.

Millar believes Miss Amajardan was “potentially a group class horse” but prematurely removed her from stud where she was sent to former Horse of the Year Dissident.

The resulting filly was named Crystal’s Legacy and Millar gave her to Gary Portelli to train at Warwick Farm.

Crystal’s Legacy have managed just one place in five starts so far, but have shown Portelli enough on-track potential that the trainer is interested in his dam, Miss Amajardan’s next colt by Sebring.

“Dale sent me a picture of the colt and I took a look and said I have to buy this colt, I love him and I’ve been very lucky with Sebring,” revealed Portelli.

Millar placed a $130,000 reserve for his Sebring-Miss Amajardan colt at last year’s Inglis Classic Sale and Portelli was able to secure the colt for $160,000.

Portelli set up an owners’ syndicate to run Sejardan, with Millar retaining shares in the colt.

Sejardan made a similar career start to her mother, Miss Amajardan, winning her first two starts in impressive fashion in the Breeders Plate and Golden Gift last spring.

Millar, who has raced a number of smart bushhorses over the years including Awesome Pluck, said Sejardan’s Breeders’ Plate win took him by surprise.

“I was looking in my living room at home and Sejardan was so far around the corner that I thought he was gone,” Millar said.

“Then all of a sudden there was a little gap and he started racing.

“For a two-year-old to stop and start, change course about three times and shoot to win, I thought was unreal.

“Then in the Golden Gift, it’s another race that I thought he couldn’t win, but he went home.”

Sejardan has drawn the barrier nine for the Inglis Millennium which Millar believes should be suitable and his youngster has every chance of maintaining his unbeaten record.

Meanwhile, Miss Amajardan is proving to be a prolific producer with her third foal, a colt by multiple Group 1 winner Trapeze Artist, who will go under the hammer at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale in April.

Millar revealed that Miss Amajardan also has a foal at the foot of Capitalist, winner of the 2016 Golden Slipper, and is back in foal to Trapeze Artist.

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The Emperor, one of Sejardan’s rivals in the wealthy Inglis Millennium, was examined by Racing NSW vets on Friday afternoon after reporting the colt was lame in the front left after track work earlier during the week.

Fortunately for Emperor’s connections, the examination found Emperor fit to race in the Inglis Millenium, although stewards ordered another veterinary check on the colt before the 7.30am withdrawal deadline on Saturday.

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Participator is also putting into play its invincibility record on the TAB Highway (1200m) during the Randwick meeting.

Formed by Tim Donnelly at Wagga Wagga, Participator won their only two starts in impressive fashion at their home track.

Older racing fans will remember another horse with the name Participator, a sleek stayer trained by the late Tommy Smith to win the Autumn Stakes and finish second to champion Kiwi Battle Heights in the 1976 Metropolitan.

Completing the connection, Donnelly, who has trained many top gallopers himself over the years, including Group 1 winner Quick Flick, began his career working at Smith’s Tulloch Lodge stables around the time Participator was still running.

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On Friday, trainer John O’Shea’s brilliant sprinters Quantico and Lost And Running raced the quinella in a star-studded barrier trial at Warwick Farm.

Quantico came in late to edge out Lost And Running in the 900m series, the latter held tight by jockey Hugh Bowman. Classy filly Jamaea, trained by Robert and Luke Price, was a close third.

O’Shea secured four of the top five spots in the heat with Promise Of Success (fourth) and Jal Lei (fifth) two lengths behind Quantico. Epsom Handicap winner Private Eye finished sixth ahead of early leader Harmony Rose.

Earlier, brilliant three-year-old Melbourne filly Zouzarella, trained by Anthony and Sam Freedman, won a very impressive first heat of the 1000m.

Zouzarella set up for the Light Fingers Stakes next Saturday with a one-and-three-quarter length win over Nimalee and Cepheus, followed by O’Shea’s soaring import Maximal.

Former English galloper Chalk Stream, owned by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, is now trained by Chris Waller and he finished at the end of his trial, around six lengths behind Zouzarella.