Gold Ace and stablemate Easy On The Eye have both done well during the week.
"I spoke with Simon [McMullan, the stable foreman] and he is pleased with both horses," Steven Reid, their Pukekohe trainer, said.
Gold Ace and Easy On The Eye are stabled at Halswell.
"He felt good and whatever he does in his race he will be the better for it but that could also apply to others in the field," Reid added. Gold Ace ran third to Hands Christian and Terror To Love in the Easter Cup in April on his last visit to Addington.
He won the Superstars Championship at his previous start.
He dead-heated for first with Terror To Love in the Flying Stakes at Addington as a 3yr-old. He won the New Zealand Derby and the Sires' Stakes Final the same season. He won a Sales Series Consolation race at Addington as a 2yr-old.
Gold Ace won fresh up in Perth last spring.
Tony Herlihy is driving Gold Ace for the first time, a replacement for the injured Peter Ferguson.
Terror To Love, with new driver Ricky May, is forward to resume after a trial win at Ashburton on September 18.
Terror To Love won fresh up at Addington in September, then finished seventh in the New Brighton Cup. The winner was Auckland Reactor, who was starting fresh. Auckland Reactor is again resuming. He had one trial as a lead up, finishing second. Now an 8yr-old, he has had two trials this season for a fourth and a sixth.
His trainer, Mark Purdon, also has Major Mark, Highview Tommy and Sleepy Tripp in the race. Colin De Filippi has the drive on Major Mark.
The Purdon-trained Sushi Sushi has been scratched following treatment for a blood disorder.
The seasoned condition of Franco Emirate could count in his favour. He has been runner-up to Franco Ledger in the Maurice Holmes Vase at Addington and the Hannon Memorial at Oamaru in his two starts this season.
The connections of Pure Power have chosen to start in the New Brighton Cup in preference to a 4-7win race.
The Purdon stable has top prospects in All Star Man (race 2), Arden Rooney and Beau Vite (race 4) and Three Pints (race 7).
Raging Bull, a smart 3yr-old last season, could resume on a winning note in race 5. Raging Bull won four of his eight starts and he was three times runner-up to Smolda, the leader in that age group.
His trainer, Cran Dalgety, does not see the first standing start for Raging Bull as a risk.
Dalgety has made the early running in the premiership with 17 wins in the first two months of the season.
Top Notch Lavros, a winner at Addington eight days ago, has been scratched tonight after a setback.
"He worked well on Monday and was lame in a hind leg on Tuesday. We had him X-rayed and he was perfect. Then we picked up his foot and an abscess burst out of the bulb of the heel. It was hidden under the hair," Russell Kennedy, his trainer, said. "He is as sound as a bell again." Theycallmesam has been scratched from the main trot due to a blood disorder.
