Improving four-year-old Second Effort will chase his fifth win a row in the Listed Monash Stakes as hopes grow that he can develop into another Regal Roller.Secret Effort's trainer Clinton McDonald prepared Regal Roller to win three Group One races and has noted similarities between the two horses.McDonald said Secret Effort had the same on-pace racing style that won Regal Roller 12 of his 38 starts and $1.5 million in prize money."The way he is going he can develop (into another Regal Roller) f

Improving four-year-old Second Effort will chase his fifth win a row in the Listed Monash Stakes as hopes grow that he can develop into another Regal Roller.

Secret Effort's trainer Clinton McDonald prepared Regal Roller to win three Group One races and has noted similarities between the two horses.

McDonald said Secret Effort had the same on-pace racing style that won Regal Roller 12 of his 38 starts and $1.5 million in prize money.

"The way he is going he can develop (into another Regal Roller) for sure," McDonald said.

"He is just on that upward spiral and when horses get in that sort of place you don't know where they can stop."

Second Effort, who is unbeaten in six starts on slow and heavy ground, would have been one the favourites in last Saturday's All Victorian Sprint Final (1200m) at Flemington but McDonald scratched him to run on a wetter track in the 1100m Monash at Caulfield.

"We seem to get wetter tracks the later we go into the season so there was no urgency to run him last week on a dead four," McDonald said.

He said he was "pretty confident" Second Effort could win the Monash which has attracted eight runners including Group One winner Gold Trail and Group One-placed filly Warm Love.

"The horse is great and I couldn't be happier with him," McDonald said.

"He's absolutely raring to go.

"He has always shown us a lot and I remember Glen Boss won on him (in June last year) and he thought he was Group Three or Listed horse.

"Hopefully he will justify that in the coming weeks."

McDonald said Second Effort would target the Group Three Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on August 6 and back up a week later in either the aptly-named Listed Regal Roller Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on August 13 or the Group Two 1400-metre weight-for-age PB Lawrence Stakes (formerly Liston Stakes).

Notably, Regal Roller was the 2005 Bletchingly Stakes winner.

He also finished fourth in the Caulfield event in 2004 and then strung together consecutive wins in the Liston and Memsie Stakes and Group One features the Dubai Racing Club Cup and Toorak Handicap before finishing fifth to Savabeel in the Cox Plate.

"I am pretty keen to get him (Second Effort) out to 1400 metres so the Liston might be a good race for him," McDonald said.

The winner of six of 13 starts, Second Effort has been in work all year but had a five-week break before winning his last four starts at Warrnambool, Sandown (twice) and Moonee Valley.

McDonald said Second Effort should train on into the spring with his days spent in the paddock to keep him fresh.

"Mentally he's in a fantastic spot," McDonald said.