Damien Oliver partnered Xtravagant in a work-out at Flemington yesterday ahead of the star New Zealander's Cox Plate campaign.
Named last season's champion three-year-old in New Zealand, Xtravagant is based at the Flemington stables of Steve Richards for the spring.
It is the second trip to Melbourne for Xtravagant who finished eighth in the Australian Guineas at Flemington in March before returning home to win the Breeders Stakes at Te Rapa at the end of April.
Co-trainer Stephen Autridge said Xtravagant had settled in much better this time around.
"We're here a lot earlier than we were last time," Autridge told Melbourne radio station RSN927.