Trainer Anthony Cummings has echoed punters' confidence about Golden Rose favourite Smart Missile, saying he cannot see the colt being beaten in Saturday's feature.Smart Missile remained the $1.75 favourite for the Australian season's first Group One race at Rosehill after a final field of six was declared on Tuesday.Although Cummings admits the small field means tactics will be important, he believes Smart Missile has the scope to adapt to any tempo from barrier five."There is only going to be

Trainer Anthony Cummings has echoed punters' confidence about Golden Rose favourite Smart Missile, saying he cannot see the colt being beaten in Saturday's feature.

Smart Missile remained the $1.75 favourite for the Australian season's first Group One race at Rosehill after a final field of six was declared on Tuesday.

Although Cummings admits the small field means tactics will be important, he believes Smart Missile has the scope to adapt to any tempo from barrier five.

"There is only going to be four lengths from first to last in the race," Cummings said.

"I think with the natural improvement Smart Missile has made, he can beat them more easily.

"I have no doubts about him running 1400 metres and I will be very surprise if he doesn't win."

Smart Missile is unbeaten in three starts but his short career has been drama-filled.

After beating champion two-year-old Sepoy in the Todman Stakes he was sent out second favourite behind the Darley colt for the Golden Slipper.

But the Slipper dream was over before it began with Smart Missile withdrawn after getting hung up on the barrier.

Sepoy went on to a comprehensive win in the Slipper with Cummings pondering what might have been.

He missed another chance to bid for a Group One in his two-year-old season when injury ruled him out of the AJC Sires' Produce and Champagne Stakes.

Both those races were won by Sepoy's stablemate Helmet who remained second elect at $4.60 for the Golden Rose after he drew alongside Smart Missile in four.

Helmet has had issues of his own and his antics when he veered sharply to the left in the Champagne Stakes were only offset by the fact he was well in front at the time.

Helmet finished third to Smart Missile and Foxwedge in the Run To The Rose last Saturday week and worked in blinkers on Tuesday morning ahead of wearing them in the Golden Rose.

Manawanui was installed on the third line of betting at $7.50 following the decision by connections of the Up And Coming Stakes winner to pay the $50,000 late entry fee to take on the Group One.

Aeronautical and Foxwedge are both at $8.50 with Flight Of Pegasus the $51 outsider.

Foxwedge's trainer John O'Shea doesn't believe the small field detracts from the quality of the race.

"Apart from Sepoy, I can't see anything else in Australia that would be inclined to take them on," he said.

Sepoy is being kept to short-course races this spring.

Victorian trainer John McArdle's Golden Rose dream was shattered on Tuesday morning when Delago's Lad suffered an apparent heart attack after trackwork at Mornington and died shortly afterwards.