Fresh from a winning treble at Moonee Valley on Saturday, trainer Robert Smerdon may try for a jumps double with half-brothers Some Are Bent and Black And Bent at Sandown on Wednesday.Smerdon decided to accept with Black And Bent, who won his fourth straight race at Moonee Valley on Saturday when he scored impressively on the flat over 3000m.However, he has also nominated the rising five-year-old for Saturday's $100,000 Banjo Paterson Series Heat 2 (2500m) at Flemington.Smerdon's original intent

Fresh from a winning treble at Moonee Valley on Saturday, trainer Robert Smerdon may try for a jumps double with half-brothers Some Are Bent and Black And Bent at Sandown on Wednesday.

Smerdon decided to accept with Black And Bent, who won his fourth straight race at Moonee Valley on Saturday when he scored impressively on the flat over 3000m.

However, he has also nominated the rising five-year-old for Saturday's $100,000 Banjo Paterson Series Heat 2 (2500m) at Flemington.

Smerdon's original intention was not to run Black And Bent over jumps again until the Australian Hurdle (3400m) on June 19.

With regular rider Brad McLean under suspension and not due to resume riding until June 19, Steven Pateman will ride Black And Bent and Some Are Bent if they take their places in the Winterset Hurdle and Redleap Steeplechase (3300m) respectively.

Both are topweights and will carry 70kg with all of their rivals on the 64kg minimum. Some Are Bent will have seven rivals and Black And Bent just five.

Black And Bent is racing in career-best form, winning at five of his past six starts.

The Black Hawk gelding won a Sandown 3300m hurdle beating Grizz by a half-head on April 21 before taking out the Galleywood Hurdle (3200m) at Warrnambool on May 5, beating Grizz by 1-3/4 lengths.

Dual jumper of the year Some Are Bent hasn't raced since falling in the Grand Annual Steeple (5500m) at Warrnambool on May 6.

But the rising nine-year-old pleased Smerdon with a soft second to Our Santa in a 2800m trial with Pateman aboard at Pakenham last Monday.

Some Are Bent, who carried 71kg when he won the Brierly Steeple (3450m) at Warrnambool on May 4, will go on to the Australian Steeple (3900m) at Sandown on June 19.

McLean, meanwhile, was suspended for six weeks on Monday on a charge of having a banned substance in his system when a urine sample was taken from him in a random drug test at Sandown on April 21.

Analysis of the sample showed the presence of phentermine which is consistent with the use of duramine, an appetite suppressant.

McLean was suspended from midnight on May 6 until midnight on June 18.

The suspension is to be served concurrently with the penalty he is currently serving for a similar breach of the rules handed down by Racing South Australia stewards at Oakbank for which he was outed from May 14 until June 11.

In reaching penalty, RVL stewards took into account McLean's guilty plea and the time he lost through injury after his fall from Some Are Bent in the Grand Annual.