The preparation for Warrnambool's Grand Annual Steeplechase has been a lot smoother for Spying On You the second time around.
The South Australian jumper ran fifth in last year's 5500m marathon and lines up today as a last-start winner.
Spying On You won the Great Eastern Steeplechase at Oakbank on April 15 after falling in that race 12 months earlier. Trainer Grant Young admits to making a rookie mistake with the rising 8-year-old in the lead-up to last year's Grand Annual.
On the Sunday before the race, Young took Spying On You from his Murray Bridge stables to give him a school over the Warrnambool steeplechase track.
Instead of staying in Warrnambool, Young took the jumper back to Murray Bridge, a return float trip of 14 hours. "We went over on the Sunday and did a school and I showed a bit of rawness," Young said.