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With aspirations of maiden wins in the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup, Hugh Bowman will make an early move to Melbourne.
Speaking on Monday's episode of After The Last, Bowman confirmed that he would ride at Randwick on Saturday before heading to Melbourne and completing a mandatory quarantine period in order to ride King's Legacy in the Caulfield Guineas.
The move means Bowman will relinquish the reins on star Godolphin's entire Bivouac in The Everest and instead ride Coolmore's topline Irish raider Anthony Van Dyck in the Caulfield Cup on the same day.
The four-time Cox Plate-winning jockey, who had a 20-meeting suspension for a running and handling charges overturned on appeal last week, said the decision had little to do with his turbulent start to the season in Sydney and more to do with the quality of the rides he'd been offered in Melbourne.
The Aidan O'Brien-trained entire won the Gr.1, Epsom Derby, last year and denied star stayer Stradivarius in the Group 2 Prix Foy over 2400m at his most recent start at Longchamp.