Most of Macedon Lodge’s enviable team of Spring Racing Carnival contenders are now ready to go to the races after a second weekend of raceday exhibition gallops today at Caulfield. Melbourne Cup winner Green Moon and high-profile import Sea Moon were among nine Robert Hickmott-trained gallopers that worked before and after the first race on the P.B. Lawrence Stakes Day card.

Sea Moon had the better of Mourayan and Tanby in the first hitout, Green Moon impressively accounted for Thought Worthy and Seville in the second gallop, while Practiced left Massiyn and Hartani in his wake in the third workout.

It was the second successive Saturday at the races for some of the Lloyd Williams-owned team after a similar session last week at Flemington and Lloyd’s son, Nick, said some would commence their Spring campaigns from next weekend’s Moonee Valley meeting.

“We’ll start looking at some races form here on in,” he said. “We might have a couple of runners at Moonee Valley next week, we’ll certainly have runners here and at Flemington in the weeks following that and probably in Sydney.

“There’s a 1500-metre race at Moonee Valley we like to use for some of the horses, we won it last year with Excluded. Some will run in that.” (report from Brad Bishop at Racing Victoria).

Sea Moon and Green are likely to be kept for later races and both continued their progression with solid wins in their workouts.

Sea Moon was asked to improve from the 600m and while he quickly edged within half-a-length of leader Mourayan at the 300m he was not pushed around late by jockey Brett Prebble.

In contrast, Green Moon was urged along by Prebble early in the straight and closed out with an impressive finish that had him powering away from Thought Worthy on the line.

Particularly pleasing from Macedon Lodge’s point of view was the effort Practiced, who led the final gallop against Hartani and Massiyn and was too strong in the run to the line to score decisively.

It was good pointer to the gelding’s Spring prospects, who finished second to Puissance de Lune in last year’s Bendigo Cup and appears to have taken the next step.

“He’s a horse from a very slow-maturing family, it’s a family we know well, and we’ve got high for that horse,” he said. “He’s matured physically now.”