"Hopefully, he can repeat his Turnbull performance and he'll be right in the race," Oliver said.
Oliver believes Jet Away's performance in the Turnbull, in which he was beaten by less than two lengths, showed he had not been hurt by the setback which forced him to miss a lead-up run in the Underwood Stakes.
Jet Away has firmed from $11 to $9.50 with TAB fixed odds since the barrier draw and Hayes believes the stayer is fit enough to run a big race.
"Daniel Moor rode him on Tuesday morning and said he felt better than he did the week before the Turnbull, so, in other words, if trackwork and the way he's feeling is any guide he's better this week than he was last week," Hayes said.
Jet Away drew barrier 13 which Hayes said was the owner's lucky number.
"You never want to draw out but that's a perfect barrier because you can just get on the back of something, not get knocked down and give him a clear run for the last half mile," he said.
"And he'll stay all day."
The Chris Waller-trained pair of Hawkspur ($4.50) and Royal Descent ($6.50) remain at the head of betting, while fellow Sydney trainer Gai Waterhouse won't discount the chances of her two runners: Julienas and Glencadam Gold.
She rates Julienas as "your long-shot in the Caulfield Cup".
"He's flying," Waterhouse said of The Metropolitan runner-up.
Craig Williams is aiming for his third Caulfield Cup in succession and like last year on Dunaden he will have to plot a winning course from a wide barrier aboard Dandino, which he believes can be done.
"I did flinch when draw 19 came up, so it just means he is going to need a lot more luck in the early part of the race," Williams said.
Group One winner Sizzling has been sold to Newgate Farm.
The sale was completed yesterday morning after Newgate's managing director Henry Field inspected the son of Snitzel in Melbourne.
Sizzling has run his last race for trainer Kelso Wood who prepared him for seven wins from 21 starts including the Group One TJ Smith (1600m) at Eagle Farm last year.
A new trainer for Sizzling will be announced within the next week.
Sizzling was scheduled to start in the Group Two Crystal Mile at Moonee Valley next Saturday but Field said the 4-year-old would be spelled immediately.
"He'll go back to the farm now for a break, we'll assess him and work out a plan for the autumn," Field said.
"He's a horse of immense natural ability and he's a Group One winning 2-year-old with a lot of speed in his pedigree so he ticks all the boxes for us."
Sizzling is out of Admirelle, a mare by General Nediym, winner of the 1998 Newmarket Handicap.
He will stand at Newgate Farm in the NSW Hunter Valley alongside Foxwedge, winner of the 2012 Group One William Reid Stakes.
The John O'Shea-trained Kingdoms starts a make-or-break run towards the Melbourne Cup when he continues his spring campaign at Randwick today.
Kingdoms will take his place as one of the favourites in the City Tattersalls Club Cup and a win will put him on a float to Melbourne.
While a victory won't be good enough to secure Kingdoms a Melbourne Cup start, it will set him up for a chance to secure a ballot-free entry into the race.
"If he runs well we'll give him his chance to get into the Cup field via the Lexus Stakes," O'Shea said.
It's an unconventional but not improbable way to secure a ticket into Australia's biggest race.
Maluckyday took the same path before running second to Americain in the 2010 Melbourne Cup.
A comparison of their classic-season and 4-year-old form shows there is a case to say Kingdoms has superior credentials to Maluckyday at the same point of their careers.
Maluckyday was placed in the Tulloch Stakes but didn't contest the Australian Derby, a race Kingdoms figured in this year as a placegetter behind It's A Dundeel.
And while Maluckyday won in restricted class before his Randwick success, Kingdoms goes into today's race after running in the group one Metropolitan.
Numerically his Metropolitan run looks an average one in finishing 10th of 14 runners behind Seville.
But O'Shea said he took encouragement from Kingdoms' effort to get within four lengths of the winner.
- AAP
