Doug Harrison says he is sure Tan Tat Brav can repeat his impressive debut performance at Bendigo earlier this month when he steps out at Moonee Valley on Saturday.The rising three-year-old son of former champion international galloper Falbrav looked an exciting prospect and had Harrison thinking of spring features such as the Caulfield Guineas when he led and then powered away to score by seven lengths in the Hyperno Hcp (1000m) at the VRC meeting on July 8.If Tan Tat Brav runs up to expectatio

Doug Harrison says he is sure Tan Tat Brav can repeat his impressive debut performance at Bendigo earlier this month when he steps out at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

The rising three-year-old son of former champion international galloper Falbrav looked an exciting prospect and had Harrison thinking of spring features such as the Caulfield Guineas when he led and then powered away to score by seven lengths in the Hyperno Hcp (1000m) at the VRC meeting on July 8.

If Tan Tat Brav runs up to expectations in the Top Cat Electrics Hcp (1200m), Harrison plans to start him in the Vain Stakes (1100m) on August 15 and in the McNeil Stakes (1200m) on August 29, both at Caulfield.

"Hopefully he can come up for some of these races in the spring," Harrison said.

"It's only his first preparation but he's a good, strong colt and you'd like to be in those type of races. You'd hope that he could make it to a Caulfield Guineas.

"But we'll be monitoring what he does tomorrow and get a guide from that just where we do go with him.

"He was pretty right (for the Bendigo race) but he will take natural improvement from that. He did a few things wrong. He jumped brilliantly and knuckled after he got going but he was able to pick up and travel very well.

"What I liked about the horse was in the straight, when Craig (Williams) asked him to go he just picked up and sprinted right away and they ran great time on a slow track."

Harrison said the colt had done well and looked good going towards the Valley race.

"They've got to go on but I'm sure that he can," the Cranbourne trainer said.

"The way he did it was very impressive, just the ease that he did it. I know he didn't get any pressure put on him and you are always going to get that in these sort of races.

"He's jumping up to 1200 metres, he's up a little bit in weight and the first time around the Valley but he's been a pretty professional horse to handle those things."

A win by Tan Tat Brav would give Craig Williams a three-win lead over Damien Oliver in their Melbourne jockeys' premiership battle which Williams is now the long odds-on favourite to land for the fourth straight season with just two meetings to go.

Both have five rides on Saturday with Oliver's mount, the Lee Freedman-trained Finessed, being first emergency in the two-year-old event.

Finessed, by Redoute's Choice from Group Two Yallambee Stud Stakes winner Toast Of The Coast, ran on from ninth early when 7-1/4-lengths third to Tan Tat Brav at his only start.