Fresh from landing his first metropolitan win with Blackstone Rose at Moonee Valley last Friday night, Mornington trainer Shane Stockdale will try for his first Saturday city success with two-year-old Kwassa Kwassa at the same track.The Distant Music gelding will make his race debut in the Junior Jocks Christmas Party Plate (1000m) and will be ridden by Matt Allen.A half-brother to Epsom Handicap runner-up Bank Robber, Kwassa Kwassa cost only $4,500 as a weanling at the Inglis June sale in Melbo

Fresh from landing his first metropolitan win with Blackstone Rose at Moonee Valley last Friday night, Mornington trainer Shane Stockdale will try for his first Saturday city success with two-year-old Kwassa Kwassa at the same track.

The Distant Music gelding will make his race debut in the Junior Jocks Christmas Party Plate (1000m) and will be ridden by Matt Allen.

A half-brother to Epsom Handicap runner-up Bank Robber, Kwassa Kwassa cost only $4,500 as a weanling at the Inglis June sale in Melbourne last year.

"It's cheap, but he hasn't got any back yet so it might end up being expensive. He might be no good," Stockdale said.

"He looks like a nice horse in the making so we thought we'd give him a shot at this race.

"He's a nice, average size, he hasn't had any official barrier trials but he's had a few jumpouts at home and he gets on okay."

Stockdale said that Bank Robber hadn't raced at the time he bought Kwassa Kwassa, but he liked the fact that Kwassa Kwassa was out of a good family.

His dam Saliah, who won two races, is by Salieri out of Currabahah and is a half-sister to Ponton Flyer who won the Group Two Kewney Stakes as well as being placed three times at Group One level in the Blue Diamond Stakes, VRC Sires' Produce Stakes and the Thousand Guineas.

The best of the Distant Music progeny to date has been Distant Melody who won two of his three starts, including the Listed Glyde Stakes (1410m) at last year's Melbourne Cup carnival, before breaking down on the training track and having to be put down.

Stockdale will be taking on the giant-killer role on Saturday, coming up against the might of the David Hayes and Lee Freedman stables which have expensive yearlings engaged in the event.

Tricolore, a $625,000 Gold Coast Magic Millions Yearling Sale purchase and a half-sister to Widden Stakes winner Superfly, makes her race debut for the Hayes stable, as does Freedman's You're Beautiful, a $475,000 daughter of Fastnet Rock also bought at the Magic Millions.

The Hayes stable will also saddle up Happy Giggle filly Happy Knockout who ran third to Our Joan Of Arc in the Group Three Maribyrnong Plate (1000m) at Flemington on Derby Day.