Levin trainer Sylvia Kay is hoping a bold performance at Waverley today will be enough to sneak Dolcetto into the group one Tarzino Trophy (1400m) at Hastings in a fortnight.
Dolcetto is 21st equal in order of entry into the weight-for-age feature, which is limited to 16 starters, and he also holds nominations for the group one Windsor Park Plate (1600m) on September 22 and the Livamol Classic (2040m) on October 6.
"I'd like to do all three big ones at Hastings," Kay said. "He did the three days when he started off racing."
Kay was referring to Dolcetto winning his second race in his third start on Tarzino Trophy day two years ago when beating the subsequent dual group three winner and group one VRC Oaks (2500m) placegetter Eleonora then finishing second to the rising star Francaletta on the second and third days of the 2016 Hawke's Bay Spring Carnival.
Dolcetto was unbeaten in his next five starts, culminating in his defeat of group one winner Authentic Paddy in the group three Metric Mile (1550m) at Awapuni last September.