Boom apprentice Brent Evans has appealed a careless riding suspension and will make a surprise return from his new home in Victoria to ride veteran sprinter Mitanni in the $150,000 Weetwood Handicap at Toowoomba.The Listed 1300-metre feature will be run for the first time under lights on the new cushion track on Saturday.Evans, who has a full book of eight rides including Little Stranger in the $100,000 Listed Toowoomba Cup (2100m), has joined the Mick Kent stable at Cranbourne and rode work for

Boom apprentice Brent Evans has appealed a careless riding suspension and will make a surprise return from his new home in Victoria to ride veteran sprinter Mitanni in the $150,000 Weetwood Handicap at Toowoomba.

The Listed 1300-metre feature will be run for the first time under lights on the new cushion track on Saturday.

Evans, who has a full book of eight rides including Little Stranger in the $100,000 Listed Toowoomba Cup (2100m), has joined the Mick Kent stable at Cranbourne and rode work for the first time for the former international trainer on Tuesday.

The 18-year-old accepted an offer last week to join Kent but the move was soured when he incurred an eight-meeting suspension for careless riding in Townsville last Friday.

Evans' appeal will be heard at Deagon in Brisbane next Monday.

"I originally didn't want to come to Victoria until after the Ramornie Handicap next week," Evans said.

"But before I came here I spoke to Michael Kent about going back to ride Mitanni in the Ramornie Handicap but now Mitanni is running in the Weetwood instead.

"I was suspended at Townsville last Friday for eight meetings but I appealed yesterday and have been granted a stay until Monday."

Evans, who has the Brisbane apprentices' premiership wrapped up, enjoyed his first riding experience for the Kent stable although he was slightly troubled by a sore arm he hurt in a freakish accident at Eagle Farm last Saturday.

Evans was catapaulted high into the air and crashed heavily when dislodged from Charlotte Courtney.

"My arm is still a bit sore but it'll be right by Saturday," Evans said.

"It was pretty dark when I rode work here for the first time today but I managed to ride about 10 horses which was good and it wasn't as cold as I expected."

Rising 10-year-old Mitanni received topweight of 58 kilos for the Weetwood Handicap, half a kilogram more than Hard To Catch and Rockpecker.

Mitanni's trainer John Wallace has never prepared a Weetwood winner in his former home town despite several attempts.

"I trained in Toowoomba for many years but I've never won the Weetwood yet I've won the Toowoomba Cup about five times," Wallace said.

Evans scored one of the biggest wins of his career aboard Mitanni when the pair won the Listed Eye Liner Stakes (1350m) at Ipswich on June 13.

His career highlight was winning the Group Three Gold Coast Guineas (1200m) on Toowoomba filly Chakvetadze in May.

Mitanni has never started on a cushion track although the all-weather synthetic surface has been in use for more than 12 months at Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast.

"The cushion track doesn't worry me. He's a rising 10-year-old so I might as well give it a try," Wallace said.