Fred Kersley has advised followers of Grand Nirvana to stick with him in Saturday's Group One Kingston Town Classic at Ascot.Grand Nirvana has been racing well without things going his way and Kersley believes the step up to 1800 metres will be in the Scenic four-year-old's favour."He has run into traffic problems and had his share of ordinary luck in his past few runs," Kersley said.The entire was third in the Asian Beau Stakes (1400m) and the RJ Peters Stakes (1500m), both at Group Three level
Fred Kersley has advised followers of Grand Nirvana to stick with him in Saturday's Group One Kingston Town Classic at Ascot.
Grand Nirvana has been racing well without things going his way and Kersley believes the step up to 1800 metres will be in the Scenic four-year-old's favour.
"He has run into traffic problems and had his share of ordinary luck in his past few runs," Kersley said.
The entire was third in the Asian Beau Stakes (1400m) and the RJ Peters Stakes (1500m), both at Group Three level, before his late-surging fourth to Sniper's Bullet in the Group One Railway Stakes (1600m) two weeks ago.
Last year, Grand Nirvana finished eighth in both the Railway and the Kingston Town Classic.
"I have been impressed with the way that he has found the line, particularly in the Railway Stakes when he recorded one of the fastest closing sectional times in the race," Kersley told perthracing.com.au.
"Dan (Staeck) will be instructed to ride the horse in a positive manner. At his past two runs he was further back then we planned but that could have been because he was looking for the ground.
"This race is usually run at a genuine tempo and that should give my horse every chance to finish on late in the race.
"He has wanted to lay-in down the straight and that is because he is a stallion and he wants to get down onto the other horses.
"If you have been following Grand Nirvana, I think you should stick with him one more time.
"His fitness is very good and I cannot fault the horse at home."
Scenic Shot is favoured to give trainer Dan Morton his first home state Group One success.
Morton's father Len Morton said the Doomben Cup and Mackinnon Stakes winner had to wait a couple of weeks to get a flight back to Perth after he finished fourth to Zipping in the Sandown Classic on November 14.
"It hasn't set him back in any way as he was able to stay in work at Flemington," Morton said.
The Scenic seven-year-old, who was runner-up to Niconero in the race three years ago, had a solid gallop at Ascot on Tuesday morning.
Jason Brown replaces Shane Scriven on Scenic Shot who is $3.20 favourite with TAB Sportsbet ahead of Railway Stakes winner Sniper's Bullet ($6.50), Grand Nirvana ($7), Lords Ransom ($7.50) and God Has Spoken at $10 with Thorn Dancer and Tarzi best of the rest at $12.