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Goodwood sprint winner to be set for Memsie Stakes and Sir Rupert Clarke.

Trainer David Jolly is likely to follow a similar early Melbourne spring campaign with Behemoth (All Too Hard) to the one that saw the gelding land two Group 1 victories last year. 

Last spring, the son of All Too Hard (Casino Prince) won the Memsie Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) and Sir Rupert Clarkes Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) and Jolly said he will target the Group 1s again in the spring.  

Behemoth is heading for a short break after finishing seventh in The Goodwood (Gr 1, 1200m) at Morphettville on Saturday and while Jolly said Behemoth came through Saturday's run in good order, the race did not pan out the way he had hoped. 

"He probably looked better after the race than he did before," Jolly said. 

"But he didn't have much luck as he got posted a little wide. 

"It was a funny sort of prep into it as we were coming off the mile from the autumn, so it was an interim run for the spring. You are hopeful that you want them to go well, but at the end of the day it didn't really suit him. 

"The bias was a bit more towards the fence and that didn't help him." 

Jolly said Behemoth would now have two to three weeks out before preparing for the spring. 

"Because he's such a big horse, I think that really suits him, as if he has two or three months off it takes a long time to get him back to fitness," Jolly said. 

"We'll probably try and do what we did last year. Have a run in the Spring Stakes at home and then gear up to run in Melbourne."