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Last year’s beaten Melbourne Cup favourite Finche will run for the first time since when he contests Saturday’s Chelmsford Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) with Kathy O’Hara aboard.

The Chris Waller-trained Finche finished fifth behind Samadoubt in last year's Chelmsford Stakes before taking out the Kingston Town Stakes (Gr 3, 2000m) second-up.

He then progressed to run second to stablemate Kings Will Dream in the Turnbull Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m), fifth to Mer De Glace in the Caulfield Cup (Gr 1, 2400m) and seventh to Vow And Declare in the Melbourne Cup.

"He has been in work for a long time so he is naturally pretty fit," Waller said.

"I think he will run a cheeky race over a mile but he will be harder to beat second up over 2000 metres."