Russian Revolution (Image: Ben Asgari)
Paul Snowden said Mitty's McEwen Stakes fancy Russian Revolution is super fit in his bid to return to the winning ways with which his career began in.
The Snitzel entire had a boom start to racing life with four-straight wins, before his first defeat in the Coolmore Stud Stakes when finishing fourth behind Flying Artie.
The then-colt returned in fine order in the autumn to hold out stablemate Redzel to win the Group 1 Galaxy at Rosehill, before running sixth in Chautauqua's T.J. Smith Stakes stunner, and fourth behind Redzel in the Doomben 10,000.
Co-trainer Snowden oversaw the son of Ballet D'Amour's work at The Valley on Tuesday, and said Russian Revolution - a $3.40 chance in CrownBet's all-in market - was ready to win on Saturday.
"He's come back pretty good. He's had two solid trials in Sydney," Snowden said.
"He was here this morning for a look around. He was here last year.
"He went to Brisbane in the winter, and now he's back again.
"He's well travelled; he's slotted in great and handled the Valley extremely well.
"He is [ready to win]. He's done plenty of work, that work's done. Today was just a topping off for that.
"He's competed at a high level for his past 4-5 starts now, at Group 1 level.
"He's a pretty solid performer at that level, and we're expecting a good show on Saturday."
The Snowden camp have two bites of the Group 2 Run To The Rose (1200m) cherry at Rosehill this Saturday, with colts Pariah and Invader.
Paul Snowden said Pariah is definitely the one to beat in a hot field that is also set to feature Menari.
"Pariah's run the other day was exceptional, he's come back in really fine order," he added.
"He's trained on lovely. I spoke to Dad this morning, he's worked great again.
"Off the back of that first-up run, he'll improve a helluva lot fitness-wise, which I think he has, and he's going to be mighty hard to beat on Saturday."
But he said Invader will be better for another run back in three-year-old grade, and is primed to peak for the Golden Rose.
"He raced against the older horses first-up, that was to give him some weight relief," he said.
"He gets the penalty for winning a Group 1, which he does again on Saturday.
"But he's had that run under his belt. 59, 59.5 is a little bit easier than what he was going to carry before.
"So I thought he ran extremely well against the older horses, he was finding the line the last 100m and taking ground off them, and they ran really quick, slick time on the day.
"I think you're going to see him better once he gets to 1400m, but it's another stepping stone to get to the Golden Rose, and he's coming up very well."