Danny Morton has ambitions to take top sprinter Scenic Blast to England for the Royal Ascot meeting in June, but his immediate focus is on Saturday's Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield.Scenic Blast landed his and his trainer's first Group One victory when he stormed home to beat Typhoon Zed in the Lightning Stakes (1000m) at Flemington late last month.He also left super stars Weekend Hussler and Apache Cat in his wake.Morton is now giving the gelding the chance to become only the third horse to complet

Danny Morton has ambitions to take top sprinter Scenic Blast to England for the Royal Ascot meeting in June, but his immediate focus is on Saturday's Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield.

Scenic Blast landed his and his trainer's first Group One victory when he stormed home to beat Typhoon Zed in the Lightning Stakes (1000m) at Flemington late last month.

He also left super stars Weekend Hussler and Apache Cat in his wake.

Morton is now giving the gelding the chance to become only the third horse to complete the Lightning-Oakleigh Plate-Newmarket Handicap treble achieved by Placid Ark in 1987 and Schillaci in 1992.

"We would like to take him over to the UK but we have to get over his next two runs first," Morton said.

The races Morton is looking at are the King's Stand Stakes (1000m) on June 16 and the Golden Jubilee Stakes (1200m) on June 20, both at Group One level at Royal Ascot.

Those two events and the Group One July Cup (1200m) at Newmarket on July 10 are part of the 2009 Global Sprint Challenge.

The Lightning was the first leg of that series which takes in eight races in four countries.

"It was a super win in the Lightning as he was getting no weight relief off the big guns under the weight-for-age conditions," Morton said.

Scenic Blast is equal topweight with dual Group One winner Typhoon Zed in the 1100m feature, both horses having to carry 57kg.

Only four horses have managed to win with that weight in the past 35 years - Zambari (1973), Zephyr Bay (1975), Fastnet Rock (2005) and Undue (2007).

Under the handicap conditions in the Oakleigh Plate, Scenic Blast and Typhoon Zed have to give away 4.5kg to the runners on the 52.5kg minimum.

Steven Arnold, who won the Lightning on Scenic Blast, retains the mount and Morton is satisfied the horse will get a nice trail from his barrier seven draw.

"There's good speed in the race and he should be able to come back and get a nice cart up," Morton said.

Pat Cannon, stable foreman for Sydney trainer Tim Martin, said Typhoon Zed's wide draw of 19 might not be the huge disadvantage it looked on paper for The Galaxy and Manikato Stakes winner.

"Fist Of Fury has drawn 15 and we might be able to follow him across or we could go forward and sit outside the leader which he has done before," he said.

Cannon said Typhoon Zed, who ran sixth behind Weekend Hussler in last year's Oakleigh Plate, had had a history of foot issues but they were currently in good order thanks to the work done on them by the farrier while he has been staying at Robert Smerdon's Caulfield stables.

Bookmakers around the country have Fist Of Fury shading Scenic Blast for favouritism but Sportingbet Australia chief executive Michael Sulllivan predicted it could be $5 the field on race day.

"Three-year-olds have a pretty good record in this race over the past 20 years and it seems he has got under the guard of the handicapper a bit, but then he proceeded to draw 15 and I think punters could shy away from him due to that," he said.