The Chris Waller-trained pre-post Australian Cup favourite Kings Will Dream is also top of the odds to win the 2020 Peter Young Stakes second-up on Saturday at Caulfield.

The card closer on Blue Diamond Stakes Day, this season’s Group 2 $200,000 Peter Young Stakes (1800m) features a nine-horse field.

The Peter Young Stakes is a traditional autumn lead-up to Flemington’s Group 1 $1.5 million Australian Cup (2000m) with Fiorente (2014) the last to do the double.

This season it is Waller’s six-year-old Casamento gelding Kings Will Dream leading the latest markets on both races.

First-up the horse caught the eye when only a quarter-length back for third in the Group 1 CF Orr Stakes (1400m) on February 8 at the Caulfield track.

Tipped to improve second-up dropping in grade this weekend, Kings Will Dream sits top of the Peter Young Stakes odds at $2.60 through Ladbrokes.com.au to break his Caulfield hoodoo.

He has had four runs at the course for two third places, but the money is on him to breakthrough for a win from barrier one with Mark Zahra riding.

Zahra chases his third Peter Young Stakes winning ride in four years following his recent victories aboard Stratum Star (2017) and Gailo Chop (2018).

Kings Will Dream is also the early favourite to win the 2020 Australian Cup paying $5 in the all-in markets at Ladbrokes.com.au, a price set to firm should he salute for the punters on Saturday.

Occupying the second line of Peter Young Stakes betting at $3.40 is the Grant & Alana Williams-trained WA visitor Regal Power.

The Pierro four-year-old celebrated an elite level win in Perth last November taking out the Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600m) and was in the winners’ stall again two runs later in the Group 2 Ted Van Heemst Stakes (2400m).

He has won both his subsequent summer trials ahead of his first interstate raid this weekend with the ‘Wizard of the West’ William Pike travelling for the ride.

The other most likely is the Grahame Begg-trained mare Miss Siska ($4.50) coming off her brilliant first-up win in the Group 3 TS Carlyon Cup (1600m) at the track on February 8.

The Lindsay Park-trained import Constantinople ($9.50) rounds out the single-figure hopes with the four-year-old Galileo entire last seen running four lengths back 13^th behind Vow And Declare in the Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m).

“He’s ticking along really nicely. He looks fantastic and his trials have been good,” co-trainer Ben Hayes told the media this week.

“He’ll probably find the 1800 metres a little on the short side being first-up, but he’ll take a lot of improvement out of the race.

“He’ll have a light autumn, then we’ll tip him out and head towards the Melbourne Cup again.”

The David Hayes-led Lindsay Park stable also saddle-up eight-year-old Harlem ($13) second-up on the back of a Carlyon Cup fourth, the dual Australian Cup champ heading towards his shot at a hat-trick in next month’s classic.

Click here for the latest Peter Young Stakes 2020 odds courtesy of Ladbrokes.com.au.

2020 Peter Young Stakes Field & Barriers

#	Form (Last 10)	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	H. Rating
1	80x10x870x	SUZUKA DEVIOUS (JPN)	Mitsuru Hashida	Michael Dee	4	59kg	103
2	9x006380x4	HARLEM (GB)	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	Damien Oliver	3	59kg	108
3	x50211x8x5	LEVENDI	Peter Gelagotis	Beau Mertens	8	59kg	107
4	6Px58166x3	KINGS WILL DREAM (IRE)	Chris Waller	Mark Zahra	1	59kg	110
5	1211x2161x	REGAL POWER	Grant & Alana Williams	William Pike	5	59kg	110
6	x1322x30x0	MIRAGE DANCER (GB)	Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young	Ben Melham	6	59kg	110
7	4424×52142	ODEON (NZ)	Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra	Craig Williams	9	59kg	99
8	1x2122240x	CONSTANTINOPLE (IRE)	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	Glen Boss	2	58.5kg	109
9	7x278822x1	MISS SISKA	Grahame Begg	Damian Lane	7	57kg	102