If it ain't broke, don't fix it.That's the adage trainer Gerald Ryan is adhering to with Hot Snitzel in the Group One TJ Smith at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Hot Snitzel is the $2.10 favourite for the 1600-metre feature to join a long list of two-year-olds to complete the Sires' Produce-TJ Smith double.Hot Snitzel fared poorly in the barrier draw with gate 10 but Ryan is more concerned with the lack of speed in the TJ Smith.Ryan wants to see jockey Hugh Bowman, who has ridden four Group One winners t

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

That's the adage trainer Gerald Ryan is adhering to with Hot Snitzel in the Group One TJ Smith at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

Hot Snitzel is the $2.10 favourite for the 1600-metre feature to join a long list of two-year-olds to complete the Sires' Produce-TJ Smith double.

Hot Snitzel fared poorly in the barrier draw with gate 10 but Ryan is more concerned with the lack of speed in the TJ Smith.

Ryan wants to see jockey Hugh Bowman, who has ridden four Group One winners this season, take up a forward position on Hot Snitzel from his awkward draw which would follow his past practice.

"In all his three wins he's either sat up outside the leader, which he did at his first win at Rosehill and in the Ken Russell at the Gold Coast, or he was just in behind the leader like he did in the Sires' Produce last start," Ryan said.

"I wouldn't like to see him get back from that draw as it would take him out of his regular pattern of racing."

Hot Snitzel is a son of 2006 Group One Oakleigh Plate (1100m) winner Snitzel but Ryan feels he won't have any trouble running 1600 metres.

Snitzel, a son of Redoute's Choice, won seven of his 15 starts but only raced once past 1200 metres when fourth in the Group One All-Aged Stakes (1400m) at Randwick won by Paratroopers in 2006.

"He's got the pedigree on his dam side to run further and he's nothing like Snitzel," Ryan said.

However, Ryan is using Snitzel as a measuring stick for the TJ Smith.

"Every time Snitzel led in a race he won with one exception when he was beaten by Takeover Target in the (Group One) Newmarket Handicap," Ryan said.

Bowman also can't see why Hot Snitzel won't run a strong 1600 metres.

"I'll be going forward from his alley and the way he won the Sires I can't see why he won't run the trip," Bowman said.

"The only doubt I have is his sire. Snitzel never won over the distance."

Bowman, who leaves on Sunday for a six-weekstint riding for trainer Mick Channon in England, also has some concerns with the barrier draw.

"It's not the best of draws but I'll be riding him positive again," Bowman said.

Bowman rode successfully for four months in England in 2007 when he rode 33 winners from around 300 rides.

He will have an appeal against a four-meeting careless riding suspension heard on Friday along with fellow Sydney rider Glyn Schofield who rides the $201 outsider Black Banner in the TJ Smith.

Both jockeys were suspended at the Queensland Oaks meeting at Eagle Farm last Saturday with Schofield outed for eight meetings for his ride on Fibrillation in the Group One feature.