If Glowlamp can win Saturday's Matriarch Stakes at Flemington there will be no happier man than Clarry Conners, but don't expect to see him jumping for joy.

Conners has spent Melbourne Cup week in a Sydney hospital with a plaster cast on his leg after slipping over in the shower last Wednesday.

"It's not broken, it's worse," Conners said.

"I ripped all the ligaments and muscles off the top of my knee.

"It was operated on and I'll be in plaster for six weeks.

"But I had two winners (at Randwick and Kembla Grange on Tuesday) so that cheered me up a bit."

Glowlamp has been a bittersweet horse for Conners.

She is twice Group One-placed, in the 2008 Champagne Stakes as a two-year-old and Thousand Guineas as a three-year-old.

She has another six minor placings in Group races but her only win in 23 starts came in a maiden at Randwick's Kensington track in August.

Two starts ago she was third behind benchmark mares Typhoon Tracy and Hot Danish in the Tristarc Stakes then had excuses when midfield in the Myer Classic (1600m) at Flemington last Saturday.

"She was just starting to come into it and she was poleaxed twice," Conners said.

"She was knocked rotten but she ran home again late.

"Luke Nolen is riding her and he's riding heaps of winners at the moment.

"She is dropping down in class a bit and she only has 53 (kilograms).

"It's the right race for her and she should run the 2000 metres, she was fifth in a Wakeful.

"We just want her to win one of these nice races."

Conners will also be represented at Randwick by mares Dorf Command and Apparitions along with promising gelding Without Doubt.

The winner of the Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic at Ipswich in June, Dorf Command will have a light campaign before being given a short break and brought back for the early fillies and mares races in Melbourne during the autumn.

She has 57kg in the Professor Chris O'Brien AO Sprint (1100m) but that impost will be reduced by the three-kilo claim of apprentice Timothy Bell.

"She's not real big but that's why I've put young Timothy Bell on. I've been watching him for a while and I think he's got a big future so I've booked him to ride my two mares on Saturday," Conners said.

Conners also has plenty of time for the lightly-raced Without Doubt.

The three-year-old won a strong race at Randwick in March when he beat Rogue Warrior who went on to run second to Onemorenomore in the Listed Baillieu Handicap at his next start.

"I think he's got a big future," Conners said.

"His two runs back have been nice and he wants the big track and the 1400 metres."