Trainer Mark Kavanagh has confirmed Shadowfax will have a crack at the Winter Championship Final in July after another easy win at Caulfield.The former New Zealand galloper had little trouble in making it back-to-back wins on wet tracks at Caulfield in Saturday's Responsible Gambling Awareness Week Cup (1600m).Ridden by Michael Rodd, the $1.70 favourite, cruised to the lead from midfield in the slow going and scored a soft four-length win over Titus Vinius with Pliers third.The gelding had beate

Trainer Mark Kavanagh has confirmed Shadowfax will have a crack at the Winter Championship Final in July after another easy win at Caulfield.

The former New Zealand galloper had little trouble in making it back-to-back wins on wet tracks at Caulfield in Saturday's Responsible Gambling Awareness Week Cup (1600m).

Ridden by Michael Rodd, the $1.70 favourite, cruised to the lead from midfield in the slow going and scored a soft four-length win over Titus Vinius with Pliers third.

The gelding had beaten Carrara by five lengths in a 1400m race at Caulfield on a heavy track at his previous outing on May 14.

"He'll head towards the Winter Championship through a qualifier and then get into the final," Kavanagh said.

"He sort of had them covered a long way out, didn't he?

The $200,000 Winter Championship Series Final (1600m) is at Flemington on July 9.

Horses can qualify by earning points in the seven heats run from May 15 through to July 3.

Kavanagh is likely to target either or both of the Flemington heats, run over 1400 metres, on June 11 and June 25.

Shadowfax was sent to Kavanagh as a winner of a Tauranga 1300m maiden from five starts and has won five of his 10 runs from 1200 to 1600 metres for the Flemington trainer.

Kavanagh said Shadowfax had proven himself to be effective on any sort of going.

"He's just honest and effective. He's improved every day he's been in the stable," he said.

"When he first came from New Zealand he was lean and mean and he got a little bit crook in his first preparation with a wog that he couldn't seem to shake.

"But since then he's just gone forward.

"When he was first sent over to me the owners told me he was full of promise and highly recommended by their agent.

"So I could only take him on his recommendation and certainly he was right.

"He's just a handy horse who's going through his winter grades."

Kavanagh won the 2008 Winter Championship Final with Sea Battle who later that year won the Group Two Crystal Mile at Moonee Valley and was runner-up to All Silent in the Group One Emirates Stakes (1600m) at Flemington.