Sydney three-year-old Pressday will target the Group One Doncaster Handicap next autumn after landing a courageous Sandown Guineas victory.The Domesday colt contested Saturday's Group Two event as an afterthought but showed his class on the heavy track, holding on beat Chasse to deny Darley and trainer Peter Snowden a third successive win in the 1600m feature.Boom gelding Bigelow ran home strongly and was a length away third.Trainer Chris Waller said he had reservations about running Pressday se

Sydney three-year-old Pressday will target the Group One Doncaster Handicap next autumn after landing a courageous Sandown Guineas victory.

The Domesday colt contested Saturday's Group Two event as an afterthought but showed his class on the heavy track, holding on beat Chasse to deny Darley and trainer Peter Snowden a third successive win in the 1600m feature.

Boom gelding Bigelow ran home strongly and was a length away third.

Trainer Chris Waller said he had reservations about running Pressday second-up in the Guineas after he reared in the gates and badly missed the start two weeks ago in the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) at Flemington.

He said it was only on the insistence of co-owner and keen form student Tony Muollo that he agreed to the Sandown mission.

"To Tony's credit, he pressured me into bringing him here and going the extra step," Waller said.

"He knows his form and he thought this was a soft option.

"It shows you've got to listen to your owners."

After Pressday's Flemington failure, Waller enlisted the assistance of trainers Peter Moody, Mick Price and Clinton McDonald to organise a barrier trial at Caulfield to give the colt the hitout he needed to step up to 1600m.

Saturday's heavy track made it more like an 1800-metre slog which weighed heavily on Waller's mind, but jockey Nash Rawiller rode him confidently just off the pace in fourth place.

A Group One winner of Brisbane's TJ Smith (1600m) in the winter, Pressday's class shone through in the last 200 metres at Sandown.

Post-race talk is generally about the Sandown Guineas winner lining up in the Australian Guineas in the autumn but Waller is not even tempted after a spring he would rather forget.

Metal Bender, Shellscrape and Little Surfer Girl were among his hard-luck Melbourne stories.

"To come down here for the Australian Guineas you are out of your comfort zone a little bit," Waller said.

"You have got to have the right horse to come to Melbourne and have everything in your favour."

Waller said taking on sprinters such as Black Caviar and Hay List was a daunting prospect and something he wants to avoid with Pressday.

"Obviously he is a stallion so we have got to look after his value and keep building it up a bit higher," Waller said.

"We will concentrate on Sydney in the autumn where a race like the Doncaster, and the Randwick Guineas leading into that, would be ideal."

Pressday broke a winning Guineas run for Darley and Snowden who had second-placed Chasse after victories with Caymans (2008) and Kidnapped (2009).

Darley's other Guineas runner Territory, trained by Lee Freedman, led and kicked clear in the straight but faded to finish fourth.