A rain-affected track is trainer Danny Williams's only concern ahead of top strike-rate sprinter Crosswise making a return to city racing at Randwick on Tuesday."As long as the track's not wet, he looks to be in a winnable race," the Goulburn trainer said on Monday.Crosswise will contest the Club Zebra Welter Handicap (1300m) and will be Williams' only runner in the race.He also accepted with Fox Lake but said the veteran sprinter would be scratched after racing at Canberra last Friday.Crosswise
A rain-affected track is trainer Danny Williams's only concern ahead of top strike-rate sprinter Crosswise making a return to city racing at Randwick on Tuesday.
"As long as the track's not wet, he looks to be in a winnable race," the Goulburn trainer said on Monday.
Crosswise will contest the Club Zebra Welter Handicap (1300m) and will be Williams' only runner in the race.
He also accepted with Fox Lake but said the veteran sprinter would be scratched after racing at Canberra last Friday.
Crosswise boasts a better than 50 per cent winning strike-rate with seven victories from 13 career starts.
The six-year-old scored a workmanlike win when resuming at Canberra on September 5 and has improved since then, says Williams.
The Kensington track was rated in the good range ahead of a storm front that was expected to hit Sydney late on Monday.
Crosswise's seven wins have all been on firm tracks and heavy surfaces have contributed to the only two unplaced runs of a stop-start career.
Williams has booked Gai Waterhouse's 3kg claiming apprentice Daniel Ganderton for the Crosswise ride.
"I think he is one of the better claiming apprentices going around in Sydney at the moment," Williams said.
Ganderton returned from a Waterhouse-imposed suspension to win on promising middle distance galloper Lorne Dancer at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday.
The former Tasmanian apprentice is in his first full season of Sydney racing and is widely tipped to claim this season's Sydney apprentices' title with the backing of the all-conquering Tulloch Lodge stable.
The Randwick meeting also gives promising stayer Zazabeau the chance to finally shed his maiden status.
The four-year-old runs over 1800 metres in what his second start this preparation and his ninth overall, although he has been entered for the Melbourne Cup by trainer Bart Cummings and owner Dato'Tan Chin Nam.
Zazabeau was a late scratching from the AJC Australian Derby earlier this year and at his first start this time around he ran fourth in a 1400m Kembla Grange Maiden.
Dato'Tan has won three Melbourne Cups with Think Big in 1974 and 1975 and Saintly in 1996, both trained by his long time friend Cummings.