Unbeaten three-year-old Our Baby Bonus is in fine fettle for his first-up run over 1000 metres at Moonee Valley on Saturday and trainer Mick Price expects he will be hard to beat.Price, who landed a winning treble on his home track at Caulfield on Saturday, had already decided to use stable apprentice Jason Maskiell on Our Baby Bonus to take advantage of his two kilogram allowance in the three-year-old event.The Dash For Cash gelding, with a rating of 82, is the highest rated of the 24 nominatio

Unbeaten three-year-old Our Baby Bonus is in fine fettle for his first-up run over 1000 metres at Moonee Valley on Saturday and trainer Mick Price expects he will be hard to beat.

Price, who landed a winning treble on his home track at Caulfield on Saturday, had already decided to use stable apprentice Jason Maskiell on Our Baby Bonus to take advantage of his two kilogram allowance in the three-year-old event.

The Dash For Cash gelding, with a rating of 82, is the highest rated of the 24 nominations ahead of the Lee Freedman-trained filly Gibraltar Moon (80), Briefed (78) and Gold Rocks (78).

Our Baby Bonus had three starts in his initial racing preparation for wins over 1000 metres at Bendigo last December and over 1100 at Caulfield and 1000 at Moonee Valley in January before going out for a spell.

"He's going great. He had a 650 metre trial here at Caulfield last Tuesday and went really well, he won that," Price said.

"He's had only the one trial but he's done some nice work and he's a fairly clean winded gelding and I would think he would be very hard to beat."

Price said after Saturday's sprint, there were very few suitable options for Our Baby Bonus at this time of the year and he baulked at running him second up over 1200 metres in the Listed A R Creswick Stakes at Flemington on June 12.

"We've trained him for 1000 metres and he'll get 1200 when we're ready for him to get it, but I don't know whether we need to run him in it even though it's a $125,000 race."

Price said a win on Saturday would basically weight Our Baby Bonus out of the three-year-old races over the last two months of the season and he indicated he would step him up to open company sprints.

"He's in good order and I'm sure he'll be hard to beat on Saturday," Price said.

Price intends to start in-form filly Dubleanny, who landed her third metropolitan win from as many wins this preparation at Caulfield on Saturday, in the Creswick.

Trainer Doug Harrison, who has nominated Tan Tat Brav for Saturday's 1000m dash, intends to start him in the Creswick.

The Falbrav colt, who was diagnosed as a grade three roarer and had a throat operation at the same time he had a bone chip operation on a knee, resumed to win over 1000 metres at Sandown on May 12.

He will be trying to make it three city-class wins from four starts on Saturday.