Trackwork this week will decide whether Whobegotyou is forward enough to resume in the Group One All-Aged Stakes in Sydney.Trainer Mark Kavanagh said the dual Group One winner needed an extended break after finishing sixth in last year's Cox Plate and was thrilled with how well the four-year-old had come back."I gave him a longer rest than normal and I'm more than happy that I did," Kavanagh said."He is certainly in pretty good order now."Whobegotyou has bulked up from last spring and while Kava
Trackwork this week will decide whether Whobegotyou is forward enough to resume in the Group One All-Aged Stakes in Sydney.
Trainer Mark Kavanagh said the dual Group One winner needed an extended break after finishing sixth in last year's Cox Plate and was thrilled with how well the four-year-old had come back.
"I gave him a longer rest than normal and I'm more than happy that I did," Kavanagh said.
"He is certainly in pretty good order now."
Whobegotyou has bulked up from last spring and while Kavanagh has geared his campaign primarily towards the feature sprints at the Brisbane winter carnival he is giving him a chance of launching earlier.
He said if he pleased in his gallops this week he could bring forward his program to include a first-up tilt at the All-Aged Stakes (1400m) at Randwick on April 24.
"I'd like to say if he galloped really well this week you may even see him in the All-Aged in Sydney," Kavanagh said.
Kavanagh said that while missing the Melbourne autumn was regrettable it was in Whobegotyou's best interest to give him the extra time.
"At the end of the day horses are not machines that you get out of the shed and just continue to race," Kavanagh said.
"Sometimes they need to recover and if you continually compete carnival after carnival after carnival they don't get a long enough spell."
He said Whobegotyou came a long way in a short time and had burned the candle at both ends of his campaigns.
"He went from winning a maiden at Geelong (in May 2008) to being a star three-year-old in the spring that year to being favourite for the Doncaster the following autumn and then again in the Cox Plate last spring," Kavanagh said.
"As horses get older they need a little bit longer and I just didn't have time to get him back for the autumn."
Kavanagh said the Group One Doomben 10,000 (1350m) and the Group One Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) were key Brisbane winter targets.
"You might see him in the Stradbroke but it all depends on the handicapper," Kavanagh said.
A son of Street Cry, Whobegotyou has raced 19 times for seven wins, seven seconds and a third.
As a spring three-year-old he won the Group One Caulfield Guineas (1600m) as well as the Group Two Stutt Stakes (1600m)and Group Two AAMI Vase (2040m) before finishing second in the Victoria Derby.
He was a luckless third in last year's Group One Doncaster Mile (1600m) and the following spring won the Group One Yalumba Stakes (2000m) and Group Two Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes (1600m).