With recent successes in mind, Lindsay Park fields a pair of hopefuls in Caulfield’s Group 3 Victoria Handicap.

No wins in the 1400m test for Lindsay Park this century until Here To Shock’s 2024 effort, with Nicolini Vito adding last year’s result.

Saturday sees Here To Shock bid for back-to-back glory alongside Ben, Will and J D Hayes, bringing Cafe Millennium into the mix.

Past entrants Here To Shock and Nicolini Vito made the Victoria Handicap at 54kg base weights, contrasting this year’s 60kg and No.1 cloth for Here To Shock, 58kg for Cafe Millennium as topweight runner-up.

Give Me Space, another Lindsay Park hope on 54kg, was excluded from the 16-starter field and two emergencies, heading to the 1400m Noel Rundle Handicap carrying 62kg minus Logan Bates’ 1.5kg claim.

Here To Shock mirrors Mr Brightside as a Lindsay Park stalwart.

His stakes breakthrough was the Listed Golden Mile at Bendigo April 2023, succeeded by the Group 3 Victoria Handicap the following year.

Group 3 victories grace Brisbane and Sydney tracks, with Group 1 honours in New Zealand last year and a Te Rapa fourth in February.

Stateside lately, second to Scheelite in the Shaftesbury Avenue Stakes (1400m) Flemington March 7, then second in Werribee trial last week.

Here To Shock earns J D Hayes’ nod as a reliable old-timer at peak.

“He trialled up super and he’ll run an honest race as he’s so consistent,” Hayes said.

Cafe Millennium defies easy assessment but shines occasionally, from awkward gate 15 Saturday.

February 14 Listed success at Flemington preceded fifth to Scheelite March 7.

“We scratched him from the heavy track last week,” Hayes said.

“He’s a good 1400-metre horse, but we would probably prefer him at Flemington.”

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