UK raider Jakkalberry caught the eye when he hit the track at Werribee on Wednesday. ''Travelling doesn't seem to worry him at all and he has already started to put on weight,'' says Jakkalberry's groom and track rider Alex Cairns. Jakkalberry is still a little way off before being asked to do too much. Cairns says: ''We'll step him up to something a little bit quicker on Friday or Saturday but I don't think we'll be doing anything too serious with him until next week.' Jakkalberry, entered in b


UK raider Jakkalberry caught the eye when he hit the track at Werribee on Wednesday. ''Travelling doesn't seem to worry him at all and he has already started to put on weight,'' says Jakkalberry's groom and track rider Alex Cairns. Jakkalberry is still a little way off before being asked to do too much. Cairns says: ''We'll step him up to something a little bit quicker on Friday or Saturday but I don't think we'll be doing anything too serious with him until next week.' Jakkalberry, entered in both the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, has never been tried over further than the 2810m of the Nad Al Sheba Trophy in Dubai in March, in which he ran third. He won the US St Leger over 2700m at Arlington in mid August.

Danny O'Brien's Caulfield and Melbourne Cup entrant Prairie Star has done well since arriving and O'Brien's travelling foreman Paul Koumis says he has improved markedly since he first laid eyes on him in England over a month ago. ''You wouldn't believe the difference in him from when I first saw him in England. He has come along in leaps and bounds. Let's hope he can gallop,'' Koumis says.