Colin Little is undecided about running Blutigeroo in the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown after he received equal topweight of 58kg with Valedictum.Little said he was expecting Blutigeroo, who has a handicapping rating of 105, to get 56.5kg in the 2100m Group Three event which has a 53kg minimum.The Caulfield trainer also nominated the Encounter seven-year-old for Saturday's 1600m Handicap in which he received 60kg, 7kg above the limit weight."I don't really know (which race to run him in). He probabl

Colin Little is undecided about running Blutigeroo in the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown after he received equal topweight of 58kg with Valedictum.

Little said he was expecting Blutigeroo, who has a handicapping rating of 105, to get 56.5kg in the 2100m Group Three event which has a 53kg minimum.

The Caulfield trainer also nominated the Encounter seven-year-old for Saturday's 1600m Handicap in which he received 60kg, 7kg above the limit weight.

"I don't really know (which race to run him in). He probably needs one more run before he goes to 2000 metres having had a 1200 metre and a 1400 metre," he said.

"I'm still thinking it over. He's pretty hard to place."

Blutigeroo hasn't been placed in 10 starts since winning last year's The BMW (2400m) at Rosehill.

"Last year's Melbourne Cup knocked him around and we brought him back in the winter with the idea of having a spring but we weren't happy with him so we gave him a spell and brought him back and now we find ourselves in the middle of nowhere," Little said.

"A horse with his rating has to compete in the spring and he just didn't do well enough to make it.

"So we are in no-man's-land with such a highly-weighted horse.

"He's won a bit of money ($1,897,900) and he's won The BMW so he is a bit hard to place."

The gelding has won 11 of his 39 starts.

Two starts before his 2007 The BMW victory he won the Group Three Hobart Cup (2200m).

Luke Nolen has been aboard Blutigeroo in his two runs this preparation for a first-up 5-1/2 length 11th to Jeuneyman over 1200m at Caulfield on October 15 and 4-3/4 length 12th to All Silent in the Group Three AAMI Travel Insurance Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on Derby Day.

The Danny O'Brien-trained Valedictum, the 2005 Group One VRC Emirates Stakes (1600m) winner, hasn't won beyond 1600m and would be having his first test beyond 1800m in the Eclipse.

The eight-year-old ran 10th to All Silent at his latest appearance in the Emirates Stakes at Flemington on November 8.

The Mike Moroney-trained Mission Critical, a Group One winner over 2000m in New Zealand and winner of the Group Three Rough Habit Plate (2020m) over Moatize, received 56kg.

Bird Of Fire, prepared by Tony Vasil, comes off a last-start win in the Group Two Matriarch Stakes (2000m) at Flemington and will carry 54kg.