For the past seven years, Paul Fitzpatrick has been Sydney's premier harness racing trainer, but on Wednesday at Canterbury he hopes for a win of another kind.Fitzpatrick took out a thoroughbred trainer's licence last year and will start Monnie's Double in the STC Members Maiden (1100m) - his first-ever thoroughbred runner in town.The two-year-old filly, who finished fifth at her only start to date in a 1000m 2YO Maiden at Kembla on May 15, is one of four thoroughbreds in Fitzpatrick's small tea

For the past seven years, Paul Fitzpatrick has been Sydney's premier harness racing trainer, but on Wednesday at Canterbury he hopes for a win of another kind.

Fitzpatrick took out a thoroughbred trainer's licence last year and will start Monnie's Double in the STC Members Maiden (1100m) - his first-ever thoroughbred runner in town.

The two-year-old filly, who finished fifth at her only start to date in a 1000m 2YO Maiden at Kembla on May 15, is one of four thoroughbreds in Fitzpatrick's small team.

He also prepares a team of around 40 standardbreds and he is again leading the metropolitan trainers' premiership in Sydney and is second to Steve Turnbull in the state premiership.

His sons Gavin, Blake and Cameron are also top harness racing drivers.

Fitzpatrick has only had a couple of runners at provincial and country tracks since taking out his thoroughbred licence but is keen for Wednesday's Canterbury trip to become more frequent.

"You always want to race in the city," Fitzpatrick said.

"You always want to race at Harold Park (in harness racing) and it's no different with the thoroughbreds."

Monnie's Double was only beaten 2-3/4-lengths by the Gerald Ryan-trained winner Courgette on debut after jumping from barrier 11 of 12.

The filly was then entered for last week's meeting but was balloted out, forcing the trainer to wait until this week to have his first city runner, but she has again drawn wide in gate 12.

"We're very happy with her," Fitzpatrick said.

"It's going to be exciting, but she keeps drawing wide barriers.

"We thought her run was very good on debut, she just couldn't get on the track. The jockey (Mitchell Bell) didn't have much choice, she drew wide and he went forward and she was three and four deep.

"I don't think 1100 metres will worry her, she's done really well and I think she'll run well."

Fitzpatrick said he held a trainer's licence a long time ago and did some pre-training, but with his son Blake also interested in thoroughbred racing he decided to take out his licence again and give it a go.

"We've always liked it (thoroughbred racing) but been very busy with harness racing," he said.

Melbourne Cup-winning rider Corey Brown will jump aboard the Fitzpatrick-trained filly at Canterbury.

"We're lucky to have Corey as the rider, he was happy to ride her and that's going to be a big asset," the trainer said.