Trainer Ricky Maund would love all his horses to be as talented and as consistent as General Truce who is chasing another Flemington stakes win.The three-year-old has not only competed against the best, including Black Caviar and Star Witness, but has always acquitted himself well in his 18 starts.From 13 stakes appearances he has finished in the top five 10 times and on Saturday he returns Flemington for the Listed Creswick Stakes (1200m) to try to win his second feature race.He won his first t

Trainer Ricky Maund would love all his horses to be as talented and as consistent as General Truce who is chasing another Flemington stakes win.

The three-year-old has not only competed against the best, including Black Caviar and Star Witness, but has always acquitted himself well in his 18 starts.

From 13 stakes appearances he has finished in the top five 10 times and on Saturday he returns Flemington for the Listed Creswick Stakes (1200m) to try to win his second feature race.

He won his first two starts as a two-year-old, including Flemington's Group Three Maribyrnong Plate, but was on a 15-race losing run when he finally scored last-start in a photo finish in the Food Services Handicap (1000m) at Caulfield.

He could easily have won his last two starts but a bob of a head cost him victory against Group One-placed filly Curtana, also at Caulfield.

"It was an overdue win last start but we had raised the bar a bit with him earlier taking on those older horses in the good races," Maund said.

"He beat most of them home but he's probably three lengths off being top-class."

Most notably last spring he was a 3-1/2-length third to Black Caviar in the Caulfield Sprint, one of three Group Two placings for the gelding.

"He's tough and in all his runs he has been quite dogged," Maund said.

"He always wants to go out there and try and please you and I'm really happy with the way he's come through his last run.

"On Saturday he will get a bit of weight for a small horse but he's earned it and he will run well."

The Creswick has been a good winter race since it was first run as the Gallantic Handicap in 1979.

Winners have included Bow Mistress, (1983), King Phoenix (1984), Kilmarie (1987), Rose Of Marizza (1992), Raise A Pulse (1994), Apple Danish (1997), Recapitalize (2004), Red Element (2008) and Dubleanny in 2010.

Again the race has attracted a strong entry of 25 horses including seven of the 13 General Truce beat last start - Spurcific (2nd), Stratcombe (3rd)) Epic Dragon (4th), Punctuate (5th) Breitling (6th), Caplamp (10th) and Enzed Girl (11th).

Peter Snowden-trained Secession and Lee Freedman-trained Territory both resume in the Creswick, while consistent Canberra galloper Unanimously and the Anthony Cummings-trained Bellisimo are also entered.