Jimmy Choux is a likely starter in the group one $300,000 New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance Spring Classic, feature race on the third day of the Hawkes Bay spring carnival on October 1.
The 4-year-old's trainer, John Bary, had planned not to run him again until the Cox Plate (2040m) in Melbourne on October 22 but said the horse had done so well since winning at Hastings on Saturday that he would need another race before then.
"He's just done too well," Bary said on Tuesday. "If you'd seen him in his paddock on Monday it was quite unbelievable. He was bucking and trying to rip his cover off.
"That race on Saturday has taken nothing out of him at all so we might as well give him another run here, on his home track, where there is no travel involved."
Bary said Jimmy Choux was now booked on a flight to Melbourne on October 8 and would be based at Flemington.