Brilliant sprinter Reward For Effort will be an acceptor for Saturday's Group Three McEwen Stakes at Moonee Valley, but trainer Peter Moody says he is far from a certain starter if the track is significantly wet.The Moonee Valley track was rated a slow (7) on Wednesday, an improvement on the heavy (8) the previous day.Moody said the 2009 Blue Diamond Stakes winner was aiming for a second Group One win in the Manikato Stakes (1200m) at the Moonee Valley night meeting on September 24 and didn't ne

Brilliant sprinter Reward For Effort will be an acceptor for Saturday's Group Three McEwen Stakes at Moonee Valley, but trainer Peter Moody says he is far from a certain starter if the track is significantly wet.

The Moonee Valley track was rated a slow (7) on Wednesday, an improvement on the heavy (8) the previous day.

Moody said the 2009 Blue Diamond Stakes winner was aiming for a second Group One win in the Manikato Stakes (1200m) at the Moonee Valley night meeting on September 24 and didn't need to run on Saturday.

The Exceed And Excel four-year-old entire hasn't seen Moonee Valley yet and the stable will consider taking him there for a workout leading up to the Manikato.

Reward For Effort was sidelined for 17 months after running seventh on a heavy track in the 2009 Golden Slipper after suffering a suspensory injury early last spring when set to resume in the Vain Stakes at Caulfield.

But he has returned brilliantly with successive wins in the Monash Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield and the Concorde Stakes over the same trip at Rosehill in July-August to make his record four wins from six starts.

There were 13 entries for Saturday's weight-for-age 1000m sprint including the exciting Hay List, Catapulted, Arinos, Rostova, Keano and Morgan Dollar.

The Moody stable has delayed a decision on Ghostmilk who missed a run as an emergency in last Saturday's Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) at Flemington won impressively by Shocking.

The imported mare will either run in the Stocks Stakes at Moonee Valley or go to Adelaide for the Listed Sin City Cup (1600m) at Morphettville on the same day.

The stable doesn't want Ghostmilk to take on Typhoon Tracy if the decision is made to run her in the Stocks.

Moody said he still hadn't decided whether to run stable star Typhoon Tracy, the recently-crowned Horse of the Year, in Saturday's Group Two Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes (1600m) or the Stocks Stakes.

If Typhoon Tracy takes her place in the Dato Tan Chin Nam she faces a rematch with last year's winner Whobegotyou and Shoot Out.

Typhoon Tracy finished fourth to So You Think, Whobegotyou and Shoot Out in the Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield last Saturday week.

The Bart Cummings stable has engaged Steven Arnold for Precedence and James Winks for Brightnight in the Dato Tan Chin Nam but Randwick trainer John O'Shea has reserved Zabrasive for the Group One Underwood Stakes (1800m) at Caulfield on Saturday week.

Caulfield Cup favourite Moudre, prepared by Ciaron Maher at Warrnambool, will wait for the Group Three Naturalism Stakes (1800m) on Underwood day in a bid to qualify for the Caulfield Cup.

The Naturalism winner is exempt from any ballot for the Caulfield Cup but is liable to a penalty.