Impeccably bred four-year-old Dream Ballad has been retired after suffering a tendon injury and will go to stud next year.

A half-brother to 13-time Group One winner Tie The Knot by Japan Cup winner Singspiel, Dream Ballad broke down during the week.

Trainer Guy Walter, who also prepared Tie The Knot for Dream Ballad's owners Sandy Tait and Jill Nivison, said it was a great shame to lose the four-year-old who won the Dulcify Quality a year ago.

"He is a magnificent looking horse, a really good sort and he could also gallop," Walter said."

"He injured his off-fore tendon and it is a great shame to lose him, especially at this time of the year because it means it is almost another 12 months before he can go to stud.

"But as a son of Singspiel out of Whisked he should make a stallion."

Dream Ballad started 13 times for three wins and amassed more than $75,000 prizemoney in his brief career.

Meanwhile stablemate Court's In Session will run in a barrier trial at Warwick Farm on Monday in preparation for the Cameron Handicap at Newcastle and the George Main Stakes.

Court's In Session scored a brilliant first-up win in the Warwick Stakes and connections opted not to run him in Saturday's Chelmsford Stakes.

Walter said Court's In Session was a better horse when kept fresh and the Cameron on September 20 was the better option, especially in light of the wet conditions at Randwick on Saturday's.

Warwick Farm track manager Dale Jeffs said he was hopeful the trials would go ahead despite further heavy rain in Sydney.

"We don't seem to have had as much as other areas," he said.

"At the moment the trials will go ahead and any decision to call them off won't be made until the morning."

PIC - Quentin Lang.