It’s not often a promising galloper bypasses a group 3 race on Saturday to tackle a Class 1 Handicap at the provincials on Monday.

Yet that’s the 48-hour detour for promising three-year-old Southern Prince, which is primed to land consecutive wins at Monday’s delayed Kembla Grange meeting.

The program on a firm surface with the rail out a long way was transferred from Saturday after a section of the track in the straight was deemed unsafe.

It looms as another stepping stone for this son of multiple Group 1 winner Trapeze Artist from the Annabel and Rob Archibald stable at Warwick Farm.

Fresh from a first-up flashing maiden win at Kembla over 1400m where he beat home Waerea, which is considered a big chance in an earlier race, Southern Prince was scratched from Saturday’s feature Group

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