Three-year-olds Dubawi Gold and Epic Dragon will both kick off winter campaigns at Caulfield on Saturday aimed at next month's Winter Championship Final.Troy Corstens, stable manager for trainer John Sadler, favours Dubawi Gold as the better chance of the pair in Saturday's PFD Food Services Hcp (1000m).Epic Dragon is having his first start since taking seriously ill after being gelded following his last run in the spring when 12th to Anacheeva in the Group One Caulfield Guineas (1600m)."He's a

Three-year-olds Dubawi Gold and Epic Dragon will both kick off winter campaigns at Caulfield on Saturday aimed at next month's Winter Championship Final.

Troy Corstens, stable manager for trainer John Sadler, favours Dubawi Gold as the better chance of the pair in Saturday's PFD Food Services Hcp (1000m).

Epic Dragon is having his first start since taking seriously ill after being gelded following his last run in the spring when 12th to Anacheeva in the Group One Caulfield Guineas (1600m).

"He's a lovely horse but I reckon they might be a touch nippy for him over the 1000 metres," Corstens said.

"He had some terrible complications after he was gelded and it really knocked him about for about four months.

"He looked terrible. He looked as though he was about to die which he probably was if it wasn't for the efforts of Maxine Brain, the vet at Kilmore.

"He pulled through but it's been a very slow process getting him back to the races.

"He's fantastic now and as long as he's finishing the race off we'll be happy but we don't expect him to win tomorrow."

Epic Dragon has won twice, both times when second-up, from six starts.

The son of Al Maher won the Listed Anzac Day Stakes (1400m) at Flemington as a two-year-old and scored over 1500m at Moonee Valley last September.

He'll be ridden by Mark Zahra on Saturday while apprentice Katelyn Mallyon will ride Dubawi Gold who is also resuming.

"He's not wound right up. We brought him in with the aim of having him running over the winter period because he does like the sting out of the ground," Corstens said.

"In saying that he's a really tenacious horse and I don't think he'd know how to put in a bad run."

Dubawi Gold won easily at his first two starts over the summer in a Ballarat maiden over 1100m on a slow track and over 1200m at Sandown before being put away following a second to Dusty Star over 1400m at Flemington on January 15.

"John (Sadler) and I have discussed having a crack at the Winter Championship Final for these two horses if we can get them into it," Corstens said.

Meanwhile, Corstens' father Leon Corstens has lost Golden Slipper runner-up Mosheen to the Robert Smerdon stable.

The filly's owner Phil Sly, 50, who has cancer, owns the property where Corstens trains and currently has it on the market.

Sadler, who knocked back an offer to train Mosheen, and Smerdon will train Sly's other horses.