Cranbourne trainer Robbie Griffiths is hoping to get a stakes win out of promising three-year-old Thorn Lake before the end of this campaign.Griffiths said the gelding was untapped with two wins and two thirds from four starts and he is keen to find a level for him before the spring.Saturday's Privileges Plate at Caulfield will be Thorn Lake's first test at 1200 metres and his lead-up to the Listed Creswick Stakes (1200m) at Flemington on June 6.Last start he scored a spectacular last to first w

Cranbourne trainer Robbie Griffiths is hoping to get a stakes win out of promising three-year-old Thorn Lake before the end of this campaign.

Griffiths said the gelding was untapped with two wins and two thirds from four starts and he is keen to find a level for him before the spring.

Saturday's Privileges Plate at Caulfield will be Thorn Lake's first test at 1200 metres and his lead-up to the Listed Creswick Stakes (1200m) at Flemington on June 6.

Last start he scored a spectacular last to first win when resuming from a let-up over 1000 metres at Sandown but the strongest pointer to his ability was his 1-1/4 length third to three-time stakeswinning filly Ortensia at Caulfield at the end of his last campaign in March.

"He ran very well against Ortensia so the form line is excellent," Griffiths said.

"Last start he still did a lot wrong, bombing the start and running around a bit but we are hoping he will take the next step.

"He has worked really well since his last start and if runs well on Saturday we will go for the Creswick Stakes."

Griffiths said there was still a lot of upside to Thorn Lake but how much only time would tell.

"We are not getting carried away and just taking one run at a time," Griffiths said.

"He gives lots of impressions and all of them are positive but he just doesn't know enough about racing at the moment."

Meanwhile, a horse who nearly severed both his hind legs as a juvenile could pose the biggest threat to Thorn Lake.

Stravinsky gelding Swift Bay still bears the scars of the paddock accident but it hasn't affected his racetrack performances with two wins and a second from just three starts.

He was so promising that trainer Ross McDonald considered the Australian Guineas as a target for the three-year-old in March after his last-start win in the New Gleam Handicap (1400m) at Caulfield on January 3.

McDonald said it took months for Swift Bay to recover from his leg injuries but the rewards were now coming.

"He should get over a bit of ground being out of a Housebuster mare (La Voleur)," McDonald said.