Peter and Paul Snowden are hopeful star sprinter Redzel is given the chance to win the world's richest turf race – The Everest – for a third consecutive year.
Redzel, who has won the race in its first two years (2017, 2018), failed to fire during a four-start autumn campaign.
He was a beaten $1.60 favourite in the Group 2 Challenge Stakes first up, before two unplaced runs at G1 level. Redzel was then knocked off when an odds-on favourite in the G2 Victory Stakes at Eagle Farm on April 27.
"Hopefully that can take its course this preparation and we can build into something to get a run in the race (The Everest) again," Paul Snowden told Sky Racing.
"He's got to obviously come back and prove himself again; we had a bit of a lacklustre preparation with him and that's foreign to us because we've always seen him run so well.
"It's going to be interesting to get him back in (the stable) and hopefully iron out those little niggles that popped up last preparation, which are definitely manageable
"Obviously it's up to him to prove that he's (still) up to that level."
Redzel has won 14 of his 33 starts, including two G1s, and a staggering $15.56 million in prizemoney.
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