Owner-trainer Vincent Bradley will try to land the biggest win of his career with Brad Star in the Listed Warrnambool Cup on Thursday.Brad Star is undoubtedly the stable star winning 10 races including the 2007 Darwin Guineas (1600m) and Northern Territory Derby (2000m) and the 2008 Buntine Hcp (1900m), all at Fannie Bay.He has been placed on nine other occasions and earned more than $330,000 in prizemoney.Bradley, who hails from Millicent in South Australia, is semi-retired and combines trainin

Owner-trainer Vincent Bradley will try to land the biggest win of his career with Brad Star in the Listed Warrnambool Cup on Thursday.

Brad Star is undoubtedly the stable star winning 10 races including the 2007 Darwin Guineas (1600m) and Northern Territory Derby (2000m) and the 2008 Buntine Hcp (1900m), all at Fannie Bay.

He has been placed on nine other occasions and earned more than $330,000 in prizemoney.

Bradley, who hails from Millicent in South Australia, is semi-retired and combines training two or three horses with a bit of casual work.

The 56-year-old worked on sheep and cattle stations for several years and did some wood chopping, cutting down trees for railway sleepers around Echuca, before getting into breeding and training his own horses.

While he doesn't breed horses any more Bradley bred Brad Star, by Staaraq out of his John's Hero mare Phantasiare.

This preparation the five-year-old ran second in both the Listed Port Adelaide Cup (2250m) at Cheltenham and the Group Three Lord Reims Stakes (2600m) before finishing sixth to Zavite in the Group Two Adelaide Cup (3200m), both at Morphettville.

Brad Star is chasing a winning hat-trick on Thursday following solid wins in the Rain Lover Quality (2500m) at Morphettville and the William Newton VC Hcp (2600m) at Flemington on Anzac Day.

That day was the first time Bradley had ventured to Melbourne with a horse.

"I'd never been to Melbourne before. I got lost getting there," he said.

He won't have as far to travel as Warrnambool is a 2-1/2-hour float trip from Millicent.

"Those last two wins were tough, fighting wins. He doesn't lie down, he's a very honest and tough horse," Bradley said.

"He loves racing. I train him hard and he races hard."

The cost for Brad Star's consistency is that he is equal topweight with Our Smoking Joe with 58kg in the 2350m feature and Bradley is likely to tell Brad Rawiller, who rode him for the first time at Flemington, to have him forward again.

"We've ridden him up a bit closer at his last couple. I told Brad to have him forward, not far off the lead," he said.

"In a lot of his runs he's given away big starts and made up heaps of ground but hasn't got there."

Bradley said Brad Star liked good to dead tracks but had very limited exposure to wet going.

Hissing Sid, prepared at Warrnambool by Bill and Symon Wilde, is jumping up beyond 2000m for the first time but looks a threat on his 4-1/4 length win over Hassle, with Our Smoking Joe third, in the RSL Plate (2000m) at Flemington on Anzac Day.

The Golden Snake four-year-old has won five of his 12 starts and his Cup rider, Wayne Hokai, has been aboard in all of his wins.