Trainer Kelly Schweida turns on the Grafterburners for $2m Inglis Millennium at Royal Randwick on Saturday

Group 1-winning trainer Kelly Schweida will deploy Grafterburners in Saturday’s $2m Inglis Millennium after the Brisbane trainer was unlucky in the rich race last year.

Kelly Schweida's two-year-old colt Grafterburners will line up in the $2m Inglis Millennium at Randwick on Saturday. Picture: Grant Peters / Trackside Photography

If at first you don’t succeed, try again.

Hopefully with a lot more luck the second time.

That’s the motto of Eagle Farm trainer Kelly Schweida as he prepares for another assault on the $2m Inglis Millennium for two-year-olds at Randwick on Saturday.

Last year, Schweida had one of the fancied runners with grey filly El Morzillo strongly backed from $9 to $6 but constantly blocked for runs as she finished ninth and just 2.5 lengths off the winner Fully Lit.

• PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet’s team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW!

Fast forward 12 months and Schweida has colt Grafterburners flying under the radar as a $15 chance for the rich restricted juvenile dash over 1100m.

“We just didn’t have any luck in running last year and it would be nice to get a bit more luck this year,” Schweida said.

“I was a bit disappointed when I saw the barrier he came up with (14) but a lot of the other better chances have got wide barriers too.

“He’s not a speed horse so maybe the barrier doesn’t mean as much, he was always going to be back in the run.”

Group 1-winning Brisbane trainer Kelly Schweida. Picture: Grant Peters / Trackside Photography

• ‘We must rebuild confidence': New integrity boss' top priority

Grafterburners, who races in the same colours as El Morzillo, was a $70,000 purchase and has already turned a profit with $101,000 in prizemoney from three career starts.

He broke his maiden at Ipswich in December before finishing second behind Space Rider when making good ground late over 1200m at Eagle Farm.

The third finisher that day – Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou-trained colt Blitzburg – won last Saturday’s Group 3 Canonbury Stakes at Rosehill.

Grafterburners. Picture: Grant Peters / Trackside Photography

• Gollan's solution to Queensland racing's ‘biggest issue'

Schweida admitted dropping back from 1200m to 1100m was a query for his colt but he felt he would be well in the hunt for the big prize on Saturday.

“I think he is probably a better 1200m horse and maybe even further than that,” Schweida said.

“But you don’t have a $2m race every week, so that’s why he’s going.

“The thing that gives us a bit of hope is that Blitzburg won well last Saturday and our colt went past him late in his most recent run.

“He will also wear blinkers on Saturday.

“We had them on in his jumpout and we went OK in them, we are just trying to keep him a bit sharper for the 1100m.”

Grafterburners, a young son of Graff, will be ridden by Adam Hyeronimus on Saturday.

Grafterburners also holds a nomination for next month’s Golden Slipper for which he is currently a $201 chance in early betting on TAB fixed odds.

Originally published as Trainer Kelly Schweida turns on the Grafterburners for $2m Inglis Millennium at Royal Randwick on Saturday