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Multiple Group Two-winning sprinter Saracino has been gelded since a disappointing spring campaign.
The New Zealand-bred and owned four-year-old, who was well beaten in both of his Melbourne runs, will resume for trainer Michael Moroney in Saturday’s Listed Kensington Stakes (1000m) at Flemington.
"We decided we'd go straight into this race and just see where we're at, but he's been a bit of a mystery since we've had him,” he said.
“I wouldn't say he was colty or anything. The only thing is we thought he might have been pinching himself or something like that. We're hoping that was the reason because he certainly wasn't racing up to his right form.”
The Lib Petagna-raced Saracino won the Gr.2 Wellington Guineas (1400m), the Gr.2 Foxbridge Plate (1200m) and the Gr.2 Danehill Stakes (1200m) from the Cambridge stable of Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman before transferring to Moroney.