Five-year-old Fordee could be described as an underachiever when looking back on his career.For a horse who was fifth in the Queensland Derby and fourth in an Adelaide Cup it would be fair to assume he would be one of the country's better stayers.Unfortunately his record doesn't reflect that with just two wins in 28 starts and $119,859 in career earnings.But that could all change at Flemington on Saturday when the Robbie Griffiths-trained gelding lines up in one of the few 3200-metre flat races

Five-year-old Fordee could be described as an underachiever when looking back on his career.

For a horse who was fifth in the Queensland Derby and fourth in an Adelaide Cup it would be fair to assume he would be one of the country's better stayers.

Unfortunately his record doesn't reflect that with just two wins in 28 starts and $119,859 in career earnings.

But that could all change at Flemington on Saturday when the Robbie Griffiths-trained gelding lines up in one of the few 3200-metre flat races on the Australian racing calendar, the Listed Andrew Ramsden Stakes at Flemington.

The race has been on Fordee's program all year and Griffiths is optimistic that he can break through for his first win since scoring at Sandown in December 2008.

"He is a genuine two-miler and this is the right race for him," Griffiths said.

"It has been on the radar for a while with only three or four two-mile races run each year."

Among them is the Melbourne Cup but Fordee doesn't have the class to run in it.

He ran fourth in the 2009 Adelaide Cup but Griffiths said he wasn't ready in time for it this year and the Ramsden was the logical next option.

He said wide barriers had been the bane of Fordee's racing career and he was often the horse seen tracking wide around fields, unable to make up the necessary ground.

Typical was last week's performance at Flemington where Fordee was the widest runner around the home turn and produced a super trial for the Ramsden when finishing a length second to Persian Star over 2800m, with six lengths to the rest.

"I thought it was going to be his day last week but Persian Star cut the corner," Griffiths said.

"Fordee probably made up ten lengths on everything in the race bar one so it was a good run."

From barrier one and with Steven King taking the reins it will be hard to make excuses for Fordee this week.

A Listed race success would add respectability to his race record and the $120,000 first prize would effectively double his career earnings.

The Robert Smerdon-trained Persian Star is again among his opposition and she is joined by her stablemate Come On Cugat who was a last-start fifth in the Wagga Cup (2000m) on May 7.

Persian Star is in the best form of her career and Smerdon likes her chances again.

"Winning form is good form and she can't go any better than she's going," he said.

"She settled good last time and she is flying."

Come On Cugat is being groomed for a jumps career but his recent efforts on the flat have been meritorious.