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Missile Stakes winner Burbero is a late nomination for the Rowley Mile at Hawkesbury on Thursday.

Burbero lowered the colours of some highly-rated gallopers with a fast-finishing victory in the Group 2 Missile Stakes over 1200 metres at Randwick earlier this month.

Bjorn Baker’s seven-year-old beat home Weary and Temple of Boom and would encounter a big jump in distance should he take his place in the Rowley Mile, a Listed race over 1600 metres.

Burbero is expected to line up in Saturday’s Warwick Stakes at Randwick but Baker is keeping the Hawkesbury option open for the gelding.

The Rowley Mile had originally attracted just six entries but that number had swelled to 15 when nominations were extended to Monday.

Also in the entry list is Gai Waterhouse’s former Sydney Cup winner The Offer, Garry Frazer’s last-start winner Campania and Wade Slinkard’s Footy Fan, while Chris Waller has four entries in Marenostro, Rugged Cross, Eigelstein and Hollywood Bound.

Also entered at Hawkesbury is debutante Canterbury winner I’ll Take The Jag in a Benchmark 70 Handicap (1400m) and stakes-placed Godolphin filly Mesa in the Maiden Plate (1100m).