Trainer Peter Moody says Master Harry has a job ahead of him to match the more experienced three-year-olds when he resumes in the Listed Vain Stakes at Caulfield.Master Harry captured the imagination when he beat his stablemate Curtana at his only start in the Listed Streets Stakes (1000m) at Flemington on March 13 but needs to go to another level for Saturday's 1100m assignment which features Blue Diamond Stakes winner Star Witness.Nine of the 11 Vain runners have won races and the top four in
Trainer Peter Moody says Master Harry has a job ahead of him to match the more experienced three-year-olds when he resumes in the Listed Vain Stakes at Caulfield.
Master Harry captured the imagination when he beat his stablemate Curtana at his only start in the Listed Streets Stakes (1000m) at Flemington on March 13 but needs to go to another level for Saturday's 1100m assignment which features Blue Diamond Stakes winner Star Witness.
Nine of the 11 Vain runners have won races and the top four in the racebook - Star Witness, Toorak Toff, Marmaa and General Truce - have not only won but have an edge in experience having raced at least four times.
"I like the horse (Master Harry) and we are going to find out in this race where he is going to be," Moody said.
"He is an exciting horse but realistically he has won an out-of-season stakes race while all others were going to the top level.
"Some of these other horses have a fair bit more experience on their side so there is a bit of a gap that he has to bridge."
Moody said Star Witness and Golden Slipper Stakes winner Crystal Lily, who contests Saturday's Quezette Stakes (1100m), were the benchmark three-year-olds.
Star Witness won his first three starts including the Blue Diamond Stakes before journeying to Sydney as an afterthought and finishing second last in the Group Two Todman Stakes.
Star Witness had a jumpout at Geelong last week and shares the top of TAB Sportsbet's chart at $4.80 with the Robert Smerdon-trained Breitling who has raced twice and last month won the Inglis Bonus Handicap (1000m) at Caulfield,
Master Harry, who will be ridden by Luke Nolen, is at $5 in an open market just ahead of Toorak Toff ($5.50).
The Mark Kavanagh-trained Shrapnel ($6.50) is having his third race start after finishing his autumn campaign with a victory in the Group Three Breeders' Stakes (1200m) in Adelaide on February 27.
Moody will run Panipique in the Quezette Stakes.
He said the promising filly, who won her race debut at Moonee Valley, had no luck when resuming last start and finishing sixth to Streetcar Magic in the Listed Reliance Petroleum Stakes (1050m) in Adelaide.
"She drew an outside barrier and got back too far but was working home all right," Moody said.