Trainer Marc Conners is hopeful the track at Randwick will be soft enough to run Mr Clangtastic in Saturday's Group Three Colin Stephen Quality.The bold frontrunner, who is being aimed at Saturday week's Metropolitan Handicap, was scratched from last week's Newcastle Cup because the track was too firm.Randwick track manager Dave Hodgson rated the surface a dead five on Thursday after nine millimetres of rain earlier in the week."I'm pretty confident we'll have a borderline dead four, good three

Trainer Marc Conners is hopeful the track at Randwick will be soft enough to run Mr Clangtastic in Saturday's Group Three Colin Stephen Quality.

The bold frontrunner, who is being aimed at Saturday week's Metropolitan Handicap, was scratched from last week's Newcastle Cup because the track was too firm.

Randwick track manager Dave Hodgson rated the surface a dead five on Thursday after nine millimetres of rain earlier in the week.

"I'm pretty confident we'll have a borderline dead four, good three for Saturday," Hodgson said.

"There's some nice cushion on the track and we'll have some great racing on Saturday."

Mr Clangtastic lines up in the 2400-metre feature after four successive wins culminating in his victory in the Listed Wyong Cup (2100m) on September 4.

"As long as it's around a dead four he'll run," Conners said.

"It's nice to see they've had a bit of rain, that will take the edge off the track for Saturday."

The winner of the Colin Stephen is exempt from any ballot for the Metropolitan run over the same trip at Randwick.

Conners believes missing the Newcastle run hasn't been too disruptive for Mr Clangtastic.

"He's pretty fit at the moment and we've been able to tick him over pretty nicely," he said.

It's no secret Mr Clangtastic loves Randwick, a track on which he has won his last two races by 7-1/4 lengths and then 8-1/4 lengths on heavy tracks, leading all the way.

"He just loves bowling along on those big tracks," Conners said.

"He won by seven lengths there a couple of years ago too."

Conners is sure something will attempt to take on the six-year-old early on Saturday but has warned his rivals against it.

"If they want to try that's fine," Conners said.

"It won't bother him but will probably mean they'll wreck their own chances.

"All of these horses are fit and it's going to be a good, strong race."

TAB Sportsbet has Voice Coach as $2.40 favourite ahead of Mr Clangtastic at $4.40.

Mr Clangtastic is a $14 chance on TAB Sportsbet fixed odds for the Metropolitan.