A frustrating autumn is a distant memory for trainer Jason Warren who is brimming with enthusiasm as he prepares Bel Sprinter to fulfil his group one destiny.
The gelding was scratched from the Newmarket Handicap last autumn on race morning with a leg issue and came out of the barriers too slowly to be effective in the Galaxy in Sydney.
After a well-deserved break, Bel Sprinter is almost ready to return to the track with the news Black Caviar will miss the spring sprints an added bonus. "Everything went AWOL in the autumn," Warren said.
"He had an interrupted campaign and nothing went right.
"He's had a good break and has furnished into a lovely horse. He's back at the stable doing even time and getting ready to step up to a gallop."