Sue Grills remains adamant favourite Border Rebel is not weighted to win Wednesday's $130,000 Ramornie Handicap at Grafton.The brilliant sprinter has 60kg, a wide barrier in 11 and a host of smart sprinters to contend with in attempting to add his name to the honour roll of the historic 1200m race first staged in 1917.Tamworth-based Grills bowed to the wishes of owner Veronica Scott-Mason in starting the four-year-old, winner of 12 from 16 starts."I've never made it a secret I'm not in favour of

Sue Grills remains adamant favourite Border Rebel is not weighted to win Wednesday's $130,000 Ramornie Handicap at Grafton.

The brilliant sprinter has 60kg, a wide barrier in 11 and a host of smart sprinters to contend with in attempting to add his name to the honour roll of the historic 1200m race first staged in 1917.

Tamworth-based Grills bowed to the wishes of owner Veronica Scott-Mason in starting the four-year-old, winner of 12 from 16 starts.

"I've never made it a secret I'm not in favour of running but Veronica wants him to go around and we'll go around," Grills said.

"He's got the job ahead of him with 60 kilos and a wide barrier. He's not a motorbike.

"Against that I'm happy with the horse. He always puts in his best, tries his heart out and he's well.

"The horse has got a super record. I'd like to protect that."

Border Rebel must set a modern weight-carrying record to win.

Since metrics were introduced in 1973, tomorrow's rival The Jackal, a two-time winner, lumped the biggest weight to success so far, 58kg in 2007.

The last Ramornie winner to carry 60kg or more was Scottish Crag who lugged nine stone eight pounds (61kg) in 1965.

Interestingly, the gelding was trained by Grills' grandfather Arthur Gore.

Lord Thomas (1923) holds the all-time weight-carrying record of nine stone nine pounds (61.5kg) in 1923.

Border Rebel will be ridden by 19-year-old apprentice Ben Looker, replacing Grills' suspended whiz kid Timothy Bell.

Looker scored aboard Border Rebel at Canterbury in May last year.

The Darley-owned, Peter Snowden-trained Pinwheel looms as the logical danger.

Snowden, making his first trip to Grafton since his days as a jockey and nearly losing his life in a Ramornie race fall aboard One Eyed Queen in 1975, is happy with the son of Lonhro, last start runner-up to budding superstar Hay List in the Healy Stakes in Brisbane.

"He's drawn perfectly (barrier one), is in good order and as good as I can get him," Snowden said.

"Border Rebel is the horse to beat.

"Look at his record. Big weight or not, he doesn't get beat very often."

Pinwheel will be partnered by Danny Nikolic.

Local hope Forestreno, trained by Phil McLeod, the David Kelly-trained Kryptelon and Takeover Target Stakes runner-up to Border Rebel, Youthful Jack, have been specked in TAB Fixed Odds betting to upset the two favourites.