Ken and Bev Kelso have enjoyed a trouble-free preparation with their high-class performer Levante ahead of her second crack at a premier Melbourne sprint.
The Matamata husband and wife training team targeted the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington in the autumn and she did them proud finishing fourth.
Levante was the first runner home on the grandstand side of the track and will make her first appearance since the Newmarket when she steps out in Saturday's Group 1 Champions Sprint (1200m).
"She arrived on Wednesday evening and travelled very well. I took her for a good walk and she's very bright," Ken Kelso said.
The six-year-old's bid for further Group 1 honours will kick off a big week for the stable, with her younger barnmate Legarto in Christchurch for Saturday week's Group 1 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Christchurch.