Victorian trainer Colin Scott believes the decision to base himself in the NSW Hunter Valley for the past three weeks can help land him his biggest win in Saturday's Scone Inglis Guineas.Pakenham-based Scott, who has just two horses in his care including Guineas contender Speediness, decided to take the three-year-old to Scone three weeks ago to familiarise him with the surroundings ahead of his tilt at the $250,000 feature over 1600m.The decision to target the Hawkesbury and Scone Guineas with

Victorian trainer Colin Scott believes the decision to base himself in the NSW Hunter Valley for the past three weeks can help land him his biggest win in Saturday's Scone Inglis Guineas.

Pakenham-based Scott, who has just two horses in his care including Guineas contender Speediness, decided to take the three-year-old to Scone three weeks ago to familiarise him with the surroundings ahead of his tilt at the $250,000 feature over 1600m.

The decision to target the Hawkesbury and Scone Guineas with Speediness was made after he was balloted out of the Group One Australian Guineas at Flemington in March.

Speediness confirmed his Scone credentials with a fast-finishing second in the Listed Hawkesbury Guineas (1400m) on April 30 and the gelding has continued to thrive since.

"Had we just been coming up for one run we probably would have just travelled up the day before, but with him having the two starts up here (in NSW) I wanted to get him here a week before the Hawkesbury race and let him settle in," Scott said.

"He has had another two weeks here at Scone after the Hawkesbury run and has really done well.

"It gives him a bit of a home ground advantage to some extent."

Speediness, who will be ridden by Corey Brown, came up with the outside barrier when a final field of nine was declared on Wednesday.

Gosford Guineas winner Sincero, who is also the early favourite for next month's $1 million Stradbroke Handicap in Brisbane, headlines the Guineas field and will jump from barrier three.

The Stephen Farley-trained Sincero opened at $1.60 on Wednesday with Speediness the only other runner under double figure odds at $4.60.

"Sincero is obviously the one to beat but we're happy to take him on," Scott said.

Scott was encouraged by Speediness' Hawkesbury performance where he hit the line strongly, and had opted to remove the blinkers for Saturday's race.

The trainer applied blinkers at Hawkesbury to sharpen him up for the 1400m contest.

"It might seem strange to only put them on for one run but they have done what I wanted them to do," he said.

"They have focused him. He is more focused in his trackwork and everything he does.

"Corey was happy with his run and we were both of the opinion that he probably wouldn't need the blinkers going up to a mile."

Speediness has only raced once over 1600m and it resulted in a strong midweek victory at Sandown in February - Scott's first city win.

He is hoping for a similar result on Saturday.

"He has improved without any doubt, and as he gets over more ground he's going to keep improving I think," Scott said.

"Once he got to the mile in Melbourne he raced like a different horse. He showed a sharp turn of foot and was very impressive the day he won at Sandown."