Hong Kong import Newly Elected will add an international flavour to Stathi Katsidis' bid to increase his lead in the battle for Brisbane riding honours at Eagle Farm.Katsidis has turned down offers to ride at Wednesday's Ramornie Handicap meeting at Grafton to continue his pursuit of a third Brisbane jockeys' premiership.He is currently riding in red-hot form, landing five winners at Doomben and Eagle Farm last week to lead the title race with 68 wins, three clear of Jim Byrne and Larry Cassidy.

Hong Kong import Newly Elected will add an international flavour to Stathi Katsidis' bid to increase his lead in the battle for Brisbane riding honours at Eagle Farm.

Katsidis has turned down offers to ride at Wednesday's Ramornie Handicap meeting at Grafton to continue his pursuit of a third Brisbane jockeys' premiership.

He is currently riding in red-hot form, landing five winners at Doomben and Eagle Farm last week to lead the title race with 68 wins, three clear of Jim Byrne and Larry Cassidy.

Katsidis will miss the final meeting of the season on July 31 to ride AJC Australian Derby winner Shoot Out in his comeback in the Group Three Bletchingly Stakes at Caulfield.

Newly Elected, in the Barrier Reef Pools Hcp (1200m), is one of a full book of seven rides for Katsidis.

The five-year-old will be having his first start for more than two years since Zac Purton won on him in a 1400-metre Class Two at Sha Tin in April 2008.

Newly Elected was runner-up at Sha Tin the previous month at his only other start in Hong Kong after winning his only other two outings at Newbury and Doncaster in England in 2007.

Newly Elected was trained in Hong Kong by John Moore but was sent to Gold Coast trainer Bryan Guy after being injured.

"John rang me and just asked me if I would give him a try here," Guy said.

"John thought he'd make a good horse over here if I could get him to come back.

"He had bowed a tendon but touch wood he's not having any problems with it now."

Newly Elected has been in work a couple of months for Guy who swims the son of Acclamation to ease the workload on his legs.

"I've given him a lot of swimming and when he works all he does is a lot of long, slow work because of his legs," Guy said.

"I'd like to see him run a nice race but it's his first run for a long time.

"He's obviously got some ability after winning twice in England and a win and a second in Hong Kong and I'm very happy with the way he's going at the moment.

"But he's still only a day-to-day proposition."