It's taken Gary Portelli some time to get used to the new facilities at Warwick Farm but he now believes he has the formula figured out and the winners have started to flow again.Among them is O'Crikey who will be trying to repeat his Canterbury victory of a couple of weeks ago when he lines up over 1500 metres at Rosehill on Saturday with stablemate Something Anything to run over 1200.Earlier this year, Warwick Farm underwent major renovations including the installation of a synthetic Viscoride

It's taken Gary Portelli some time to get used to the new facilities at Warwick Farm but he now believes he has the formula figured out and the winners have started to flow again.

Among them is O'Crikey who will be trying to repeat his Canterbury victory of a couple of weeks ago when he lines up over 1500 metres at Rosehill on Saturday with stablemate Something Anything to run over 1200.

Earlier this year, Warwick Farm underwent major renovations including the installation of a synthetic Viscoride training track.

"Things are getting back to normality," Portelli said.

"It took a while to work out just how hard to work the horses on the Viscoride.

"It is a forgiving surface and they can go fast on it but sometimes they leave it all there and don't take it to the races.

"It's been a learning curve for most of us."

O'Crikey runs in the PCS Australia/NEC Handicap (1500m) with apprentice Nathan Berry's three-kilo claim bringing him in with 53.5kg.

Hugh Bowman will be aboard Something Anything in the Grand Pavilion Handicap (1200m) which will be his first start since July and a step towards a possible tilt at next month's Group Two Villiers Stakes.

At the second last start of his winter campaign, Something Anything won over 1400 metres at Rosehill then ran third in the Listed Winter Stakes over the same distance, the furthest he has been tested.

The Rosehill win in June was the fourth of Something Anything's career but his only victory in his home town with his other three coming in Melbourne.

The five-year-old has also racked up a frustrating 12 placings from his 29 starts but Portelli is counting on him being a more mature horse this time around.

"He has been a pretty highly-strung horse in the past but hopefully he is a bit more settled this time around," he said.

"The plan is to step him up in distance after Saturday and if he handles that then we could press on to the Villiers.

"If not we can always come back to sprints."

Among the gelding's opposition on Saturday will be News Alert who finished second to Blessus in the $100,000 Yalumba Cup (1300m) at Hawkesbury last week.

The Garry White-trained News Alert will be ridden by four-time Melbourne premiership winner Darren Gauci who will also be aboard stablemate North Dakota in the TAB Mobi Handicap (1400m).

News Alert is owned by Gauci's long-time friend Frank Scali while North Dakota, who Gauci steered to victory at the Hawkesbury meeting, is raced by Hobartville Stud.

Gauci has also picked up the ride on three-year-old Fivewest for Bart Cummings in the Nivea Visage Handicap (1500m).