An autumn campaign in Sydney is under consideration for Milo, brilliant winner of the Dunedin Guineas at Wingatui on Saturday.
"I am seriously thinking about taking him to Sydney with Borninthestates, who would go for the Sydney Cup," trainer Michael Pitman, said.
"I have ruled out going to Melbourne now that I have lost Coup Align. I am making the premiership my priority."
Pitman leads the premiership with 59 wins after four wins at the premier meeting on Saturday.
Owner Ray Coupland will transfer Coup Align to Mark Walker in Singapore after the Waikato Sprint at Te Rapa next Saturday.
Pitman said he was disappointed.
He was keen to take Coup Align to Singapore for the KrisFlyer Sprint (1200m) onMay 22 before the horsechanged stables.
Milo settled last in a field of 16, looped the field to lead at the 150m and won by three lengths.
"The plan was to ride him mid-field but he had no pace early. Michael told me ride him as the best horse in the field, so I went round them on the corner and he won easily.
He will keep on improving," David Walsh, the rider of Milo, said.
His next start is the Southland Guineas (1600m) on February 19, when a win would reap his Otautau owners, John and Evelyn Carran, a $100,000 bonus.
The bonus is payable to the winner of the Gore, Dunedin and Southland Guineas, providing 10 horses start in the final leg. Pitman trained the first three home in the Dunedin Guineas and his team should go a long way to ensuring a 10-horse field.
Fritzy Boy won the three races in 2008 but the bonus was not paid when eight horses started in the Southland Guineas.
Milo earned a $21,000 TBS bonus on Saturday, complementing the $28,125 first prize.
It was his fourth win in five starts since he began racing six weeks ago. Pitman has also won the Dunedin Guineas with Princeton Bay (1996), Just Tommy (1990) and Pronto King (1983).
Pronto King won by five lengths on a heavy track when the race was run in October.
Latham Bay won the Dunedin Guineas by six lengths in December, 1992.
The day started badly for Pitman when one of the two trucks he used for transporting horses to Wingatui broke down between his Waikouaiti base and Dunedin.
His other truck had to return to pick up seven horses and the incapacitated truck was towed back to Waikouaiti.
Coup Tagonal and Coup Ay Tee won maiden races for the stables on Saturday.
Pitman bought Coup Tagonal for $20,000 at a Magic Millions sale in Brisbane.
The 3yr-old is out of a sister to Lonhro.
Coup Ay Tee, named for the Brisbane racing commentator Alan Thomas, was bred by Ray Coupland out of Flying Coup, who won the 2002 Canterbury Belle Stakes.
Coupland has since sold the mare to Curraghmore Stud.
Graham Dobbs, who rode Arctic Wind to win the 1968 Otago Steeplechase at Wingatui, was back there on Saturday as an owner-trainer to win with Ya Dreamin Jonesy.
Dobbs has won three races with Ya Dreamin Jonesy since he took over the training of the Pins gelding this season.
• A Gallant Guru-Blessed Thee colt offered by White Robe Lodge topped the first day of the festival yearling sale at Karaka yesterday.
The colt was bought by trainer Roger James, of Cambridge, for $60,000.
