The state of the Rosehill track will determine where Canberra trainer Keith Dryden will run the emerging Vilakazi Street next.
Dryden has dual accepted with him in a Benchmark 80 Handicap (1300metres) in Sydney tomorrow and, surprisingly, a Benchmark 80 Handicap (1200m) at Canberra's Thoroughbred Park today.
He has also nominated the Johannesburg gelding for a 1200m race at Canterbury Park next Friday.
The preferred option for Vilakazi Street is Rosehill but the track was already rated slow yesterday with more rain on the way.
Dryden's five-year-old doesn't handle the wet and he'll decide at 7am today which race he'll tackle.
''I do need him to have a run [but] if it rains in Sydney and I take him to Sydney he won't perform. If it rains here and I send him around here he still won't perform but he's got to have a run,'' he said.
''The intention for him ... is to have a crack at the National Sprint. If it's going to be wet then he might as well go around here where he doesn't like the conditions rather than float him all the way to Sydney where he also doesn't like the conditions.''
Vilakazi impressed in his last-start at Rosehill last month, when he was edged out by Magic Weekend over 1100m.
Since that run the weather has plagued him - he was also scratched from Canterbury last Friday due to the wet track.
But Dryden thinks his charge should have enough conditioning to only need one more run before the $100,000 National Sprint (1400m) on March11.
It's a different story for General Jay Dee, who Dryden has also nominated for today's Benchmark 80 at Canberra. General Jay Dee is in need of a run with the National, also his target, just four weeks away.
''He originally was going to go to Sydney ... but I'd run out of time for the Black Opal [meet] - then I'd be going into the 1400m with only one run under my belt and that wasn't satisfactory,'' Dryden said.
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