Autumn giant-killer and Cox Plate hopeful Vision And Power is building nicely towards his return in next month's Group Two Warwick Stakes at Randwick.Trainer Joe Pride said the six-year-old had enjoyed a five week break and was in great order."He's been back for about four weeks and if anything, I think he's improved," Pride said."He'll start off in the Warwick Stakes and then go to the Chelmsford and the George Main."Vision And Power was originally trained by Robert Smerdon in Victoria but stru

Autumn giant-killer and Cox Plate hopeful Vision And Power is building nicely towards his return in next month's Group Two Warwick Stakes at Randwick.

Trainer Joe Pride said the six-year-old had enjoyed a five week break and was in great order.

"He's been back for about four weeks and if anything, I think he's improved," Pride said.

"He'll start off in the Warwick Stakes and then go to the Chelmsford and the George Main."

Vision And Power was originally trained by Robert Smerdon in Victoria but struggled to live up to his potential and owner Nick Moraitis sent him to Sydney hoping a change of environment would turn things around.

This year, Vision And Power graduated from being a handy Saturday class galloper to a dual Group One winner with victories in the George Ryder Stakes and Doncaster Mile.

The Warwick Stakes (1400m) is on August 22 and the Group Two Chelmsford Stakes (1600m) is two weeks later while the Group One George Main Stakes is on September 26.

While Vision And Power proved his prowess over the Randwick Mile with his Doncaster victory, Pride said he planned to bypass the Epsom Handicap over the same course and distance on October 3 in favour of the Caulfield Stakes a week later.

"We'll go straight to Melbourne after the George Main," Pride said.

"The Caulfield Stakes gives him two weeks into the Cox Plate."

At his last autumn start on April 25, Vision And Power finished fifth in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes, just a length from winner Pompeii Ruler.

Vision And Power has won 10 of his 45 starts with champion jockey Jim Cassidy aboard for seven of those victories.

Cassidy is currently on an overseas holiday and is nursing a sore shoulder suffered in an incident in the Queensland Derby.

Moraitis and Cassidy have had a long and successful association going back more than a decade combining to win the 1997 Caulfield and Melbourne Cups with champion Might And Power as well as the Cox Plate a year later.

Cassidy expects to be fit for the start of the new season in August.