Emerging stayer Agent Bauer will be thrown in the deep end in Wednesday's Australia Day Cup at Warwick Farm.The four-year-old broke his maiden at Kembla Grange on November 2 and has gone on to win three more traces, his past two by a combined margin of 10 lengths.Among his opposition in the 2400m Listed feature will be his Gwenda Markwell-trained stablemate, veteran Lang."They will both run," Markwell said."Agent Bauer is taking a big step up in grade but I do think he is a very good horse in th

Emerging stayer Agent Bauer will be thrown in the deep end in Wednesday's Australia Day Cup at Warwick Farm.

The four-year-old broke his maiden at Kembla Grange on November 2 and has gone on to win three more traces, his past two by a combined margin of 10 lengths.

Among his opposition in the 2400m Listed feature will be his Gwenda Markwell-trained stablemate, veteran Lang.

"They will both run," Markwell said.

"Agent Bauer is taking a big step up in grade but I do think he is a very good horse in the making."

Agent Bauer won a Benchmark 60 over 2000 metres on a slow Hawkesbury track on December 19, beating Tea For Two by 3-1/2 lengths.

He led all the way at his first test at 2400 metres to beat All Black Miss by 6-1/2 lengths in a no-metropolitan win race at Randwick on January 5 with Tide, another Australia Day Cup aspirant, third.

The battle hardened Lang's 61 start career has been interrupted by injury with his best recent result second in the Stayer's Cup (3200m) at Rosehill in June.

Lang was trained by David Payne when he ran third in the 2008 Sydney Cup and had an extended injury break after his fourth a year later.

He also ran fourth in the 2008 Australia Day Cup which was won by the Markwell trained El Meroo and run over 2000 metres.

Nominal favourite for this year's Australia Day Cup is the Chris Waller-trained Strike One, winner of the Stayer's Cup and most recently second to Queenslander Spechenka in the Summer Cup on Boxing Day.

Waller has also entered Warringah who ran fifth over 2400 metres at Randwick on New Year's Day.

An expensive import from England, Warringah has taken time to adjust to Australian racing and finally claimed a win during a spring sojourn in Queensland before returning to Waller at Rosehill.