By MIKE DILLON
There is no certainty that San Luis and Vinaka will have a re-match in the $120,000 Ford Ellerslie Sires Produce on Saturday week.
San Luis may instead take on the $A500,000 Moet & Chandon Champagne Stakes at Randwick on April 28.
Part-owner Rob McAnulty and trainer Chris McNab will make that decision after blood tests on the smart juvenile this week.
"The only thing against going to Sydney is that he's coming to the end of this preparation and the ideal time to go to Australia is when they're on the rise," said McAnulty yesterday.
"The temptation is to go to Sydney, but common sense is probably telling us to go to Ellerslie.
"If he goes to Ellerslie he will win, and therefore prove he's the best 2-year-old in New Zealand."
Chris McNab described San Luis as the rock star of his stable.
"He's a gorgeous-looking individual," he said.
McAnulty said he and his seven partners in the horse turned down good money for him this week.
"What he's done at two is really only a bonus. He'll be a lot better horse next season and we see him as a stallion prospect later."
McAnulty said he would set San Luis for the Australian Guineas in Melbourne early next year.
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