The Lloyd Williams team will concentrate on the Melbourne Cup with imported stayer Mourayan, winner of the Bart Cummings at Flemington.Mourayan missed Saturday's Group One Metropolitan at Randwick in favour of Sunday's 2500m Listed race and Williams' son and part-owner Nick Williams said he would also bypass the Caulfield Cup.Williams was also full of praise for Hugh Bowman's ride, describing the Sydney rider as the best jockey in Australia after he gave the six-year-old the run of the race from

The Lloyd Williams team will concentrate on the Melbourne Cup with imported stayer Mourayan, winner of the Bart Cummings at Flemington.

Mourayan missed Saturday's Group One Metropolitan at Randwick in favour of Sunday's 2500m Listed race and Williams' son and part-owner Nick Williams said he would also bypass the Caulfield Cup.

Williams was also full of praise for Hugh Bowman's ride, describing the Sydney rider as the best jockey in Australia after he gave the six-year-old the run of the race from barrier one.

"(He's) Australia's best jockey, Hugh Bowman, you can see why Chris Waller is wining all those races up there (Sydney), with Hughey on board, he's seriously in form Hugh Bowman," Williams said of Bowman who won Saturday's Group One Flight Stakes at Randwick aboard Streama.

Williams was also effusive in his praise for Mourayan who broke through for his first win since arriving in Australia although he was runner-up at Group One level in the 2010 Metropolitan and this years BMW.

"This horse has seriously come on," said Williams who indicated the entire would miss the Caulfield Cup.

"I think we will probably just run him in the Melbourne Cup. He might run in the Moonee Valley Cup on the way there.

"You know he's had a few goes at Caulfield and it hasn't proved to be his track, some of these (imported) horses have trouble getting around Caulfield, so we will wait and see but that is my gut feel at the moment."

Backed from $9 to $6.50, Mourayan scored by two lengths from Niwot ($3.80 fav) with Showcause ($31) three-quarters of a length away third.

Bowman said it helped that he had already had a couple of race rides on Mourayan in Sydney.

"The Lloyd Williams team gave me a great deal of confidence when I jumped on his back, they elected to stay here rather than travel to Sydney for the Metropolitan yesterday and it's proved a good decision," he said.

Mourayan came to Australia as the winner of two races as a two-year-old in Ireland, both at Leopardstown, including the Listed Eyrefield Stakes (1800m).

As a three-year-old he was placed in the Irish Derby.