Leading trainer Peter Moody will produce the promising Huegill first-up in Saturday's Mitchell McKenzie Stakes at Moonee Valley.Moody scratched the three-year-old from the metropolitan meeting at Mornington last Wednesday due to the deteriorating track conditions to save him for the Listed 1200m event.As it turned out the Mornington 1016m race was one of three races abandoned due to poor visibility."I've got great belief in this colt. He was placed behind Sepoy at his only run," Moody said of Hu

Leading trainer Peter Moody will produce the promising Huegill first-up in Saturday's Mitchell McKenzie Stakes at Moonee Valley.

Moody scratched the three-year-old from the metropolitan meeting at Mornington last Wednesday due to the deteriorating track conditions to save him for the Listed 1200m event.

As it turned out the Mornington 1016m race was one of three races abandoned due to poor visibility.

"I've got great belief in this colt. He was placed behind Sepoy at his only run," Moody said of Huegill.

"I think he's going to measure up in Group races and in a very short space of time.

I was looking at Mornington as an opportunity for a soft kill.

"I think the More Than Readys usually handle it, but I wasn't prepared to risk him on the heavy."

The colt, who ran third behind star colt Sepoy and subsequent VRC Sires' Produce Stakes winner Running Tall in the Group Three Blue Diamond Prelude (1100m) at Caulfield in February, has been nominated for the Group One Caulfield Guineas (1600m) on October 8.

Also fronting up at the Valley will be Kulgrinda, an impressive first-up winner over Amy's Glen and Obsidian Dragon in the Listed Lightning Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville late last month.

"I've got a lot of time for this mare," Moody said.

She was super in Adelaide first-up and she heads to the Valley for a 1000 metre set weights and penalties race which will be her first run in open company.

"That will tell me realistically where I can head with her but I do think she's got very good up-side.

"And if we do go up in distance with a couple of her stablemates, I think she's a lovely mare to fill the void."

The Exceed And Excel four-year-old has raced only five times for three wins, a second and a fourth.

A winner over 1000m at Moe and over 955m at the Valley at her first two starts, Kulgrinda was runner-up to Tropic Thunder in the Redelva Stakes (1000m) at Morphettville in February.

She was spelled after finishing fourth to stablemate Panipique in the MSS Security Stakes (1100m) at Flemington in March and had a 4-1/2 month break before her first-up victory.