Toowoomba trainer Tony Webb hopes spring plans for his promising sprinter Starstreamed will become clearer after he tackles the Gaythorne RSL Handicap at Doomben.Webb has been around too long to unveil his plans prematurely and will be guided by the rising three-year-old's performance in Saturday's 1110-metre dash before finalising the colt's future.Starstreamed, a son of former international champion Starcraft, has shown above-average ability despite winning only once in four starts.Webb consid

Toowoomba trainer Tony Webb hopes spring plans for his promising sprinter Starstreamed will become clearer after he tackles the Gaythorne RSL Handicap at Doomben.

Webb has been around too long to unveil his plans prematurely and will be guided by the rising three-year-old's performance in Saturday's 1110-metre dash before finalising the colt's future.

Starstreamed, a son of former international champion Starcraft, has shown above-average ability despite winning only once in four starts.

Webb considered taking advantage of the BOBS payments scheme in Sydney with Starstreamed following his second to Spirit Of Boom at Eagle Farm in April.

However, he elected to remain at home to target the winter races but Starstreamed had to be rested following his last-start sixth to Ringa Ringa Rosie in the Listed Hampden Stakes (1200m) at Doomben on May 24.

"He pulled up shin-sore for the third time and could hardly walk after his last run," Webb said.

"He's a late foal who doesn't turn three until December.

"I'll be happy if he doesn't pull up shin-sore again after Saturday and I won't be making any decisions with him until after I see how he goes."

Webb is hopeful Starstreamed will develop into a useful three-year-old and considers any wins he collects as a two-year-old as a bonus.

"He's still got another five months before he turns three," he said.

"I told his owners I didn't think he would make a two-year-old and it would be a bonus if he won before turning three.

"Horses can't talk. They can only show you when they're not feeling right like when he went shin-sore."

Webb has left all options open for a spring campaign interstate with Starstreamed who was bred by owners Prue and Libby Head.

Starstreamed is a half-brother to Great Crusader, who Webb took to Sydney as a two-year-old in 2000, and the well-performed Bold Reason, the winner of nine races and more than $385,000 in prizemoney.

"Great Crusader won the Todman Slipper and then was sixth in the Golden Slipper behind Belle Du Jour," Webb said.

"I took him to Melbourne in the spring that year but I might as well have stayed at home."

Webb was critical of Jim Cassidy's ride on Great Crusader who finished seventh in the Listed Hilton On The Park (1100m) at Flemington in November that year.

"Starstreamed's mother, Gay Performance, was a useful sprinter who won twice but she fell to pieces after she won the (1994) Moree Sires which was a good race then," he said.