Utility returns to the scene of his biggest, and most recent, win at Sandown on Saturday but this time he will be chasing a smaller prize when he runs in the Hussonet Handicap.It will be two years to the day that the Pat Carey-trained galloper defeated Douro Valley by a long neck to take out the Group Three Eclipse Stakes (2100m) on the Hillside circuit with Mark Zahra aboard.This time the Flying Spur gelding tackles a rating 0-89 event over 1400m on the Lakeside track with Zahra again in the sa

Utility returns to the scene of his biggest, and most recent, win at Sandown on Saturday but this time he will be chasing a smaller prize when he runs in the Hussonet Handicap.

It will be two years to the day that the Pat Carey-trained galloper defeated Douro Valley by a long neck to take out the Group Three Eclipse Stakes (2100m) on the Hillside circuit with Mark Zahra aboard.

This time the Flying Spur gelding tackles a rating 0-89 event over 1400m on the Lakeside track with Zahra again in the saddle.

Utility made it two straight in the 2006 Eclipse having won over 2000m at Flemington on the final day of the Melbourne Cup carnival.

However in 18 starts since the now seven-year-old has failed to add to his overall tally of six career wins although he has had a second, a third and three fourth placings.

But Carey was encouraged that another win was not far away when Utility put in a terrific first-up performance when coming from last to finish fifth to Juggle The Books over 1200m at Flemington on Melbourne Cup day.

He was the second horse home on the slower grandstand section of the straight track that day behind subsequent Kevin Heffernan Stakes winner Captain Bax.

"I was very happy with the way he went. The straight didn't race truly with it playing to the inside and I thought his run was huge," Carey said.

"They seemed to be grossly disadvantaged racing down the grandstand side.

"We thought he'd run well. We've trained him as a sprinter-miler this time up."

Carey said he started preparing Utility later this year with the idea of racing him over the late spring-summer period.

The equal topweight with 58kg will jump from barrier two in the 11-horse field on Saturday.

Carey will also saddle up Soft Sell in the Swell Time Hcp (1600m) with three kilo-claiming apprentice Logan McGill the rider.

Soft Sell won over 1300m on the Lakeside track four starts back while last start the Rubiton five-year-old mare was disappointed for a run before finishing a 2-1/2 length seventh to Origami Miss over 1700m at Flemington on Cup day.