Jockey Michael Cahill will be told to be more aggressive on Sniper's Bullet as each strives to win their second Group One Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm.Only seven horses have won two Stradbroke Handicaps since the race's inception in 1890 and six of those were in successive years.As well as Sniper's Bullet, the Mike Moroney-trained Mr Baritone is chasing his second Stradbroke following last year's upset victory.Kiwi galloper Rough Habit was the last to win the Stradbroke in consecutive years

Jockey Michael Cahill will be told to be more aggressive on Sniper's Bullet as each strives to win their second Group One Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm.

Only seven horses have won two Stradbroke Handicaps since the race's inception in 1890 and six of those were in successive years.

As well as Sniper's Bullet, the Mike Moroney-trained Mr Baritone is chasing his second Stradbroke following last year's upset victory.

Kiwi galloper Rough Habit was the last to win the Stradbroke in consecutive years in 1991-92.

Before him were Lucky Ring (1949-50), Petrol Lager (1934-35), Highland (1925-26), Gold Tie (1918-19) and Babel who was the first horse to achieve successive Stradbrokes in 1895-96.

Queenslander Daybreak Lover also won two Stradbrokes, the first in 1984 before he came back to win the feature two years later.

Sniper's Bullet was ridden by Craig Williams when successful in 2007 while Cahill won the $1 million feature on the Bevan Laming-trained St Basil two years earlier.

Sniper's Bullet is currently a $14 chance on TAB Sportsbet's fixed odds market with Black Piranha the $3.80 favourite.

Trainer Tracey Bartley believes Sniper's Bullet is going as good as ever and rates the Stradbroke an open race this year.

The five-year-old hasn't won since his Stradbroke victory in 2007 but Bartley isn't concerned.

"He probably won the Stradbroke a year ahead of his time but he's going just as good now," he said.

Bartley isn't overly worried with Sniper's Bullet's barrier 19 but wants to see Cahill show more aggression on a heavy track.

"There's plenty of speed in the race and the barrier doesn't worry me," Bartley said.

"The year La Montagna won the Stradbroke (2006) all three placegetters came from outside alleys.

"Michael will need to be more competitive out of the gates. He can't come out and drop his hands on a heavy track."

Sniper's Bullet has had only three starts this campaign after being placed twice at the highest level in the Railway and Kingston Town Stakes at Ascot in Perth before he lost a plate and finished near last to Something Anything in the Group Two Villiers Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on December 20.

"This horse has got plenty of pace and he's led Bank Robber in a race before and he sat outside him in the Railway Stakes in Perth," Bartley said.

Bartley brought Sniper's Bullet back to Queensland last winter for a shot at the Stradbroke but he could manage only 12th to Mr Baritone.

"In last year's Stradbroke, Craig Williams lost his iron out of the barriers and got back and then the horse got galloped on," Bartley said.

"He's going better than last year.

"I made a mistake with him before last year's Stradbroke when I gave him a barrier trial at Deagon before the race.

"It probably took the edge off him as he had just come out of a hard Doncaster campaign in Sydney."

Bartley rates Sydney sprinter Black Piranha as the main threat to Sniper's Bullet and believes the Gai Waterhouse-trained Royal Discretion could be a knockout chance in the wet.