Melbourne spring carnival star jockey Mick Dee will ride Group One winner Aegon (NZ) (Sacred Falls) in next month’s Gr.1 Rydges Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) at Trentham.

Cambridge trainer Andrew Forsman confirmed the booking of Victoria-based Kiwi hoop Dee for Aegon, who has arrived back in New Zealand in terrific order after a two-race Melbourne campaign that resulted in victory in the Gr.3 Moonga Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield and a fourth to Alligator Blood (All Too Hard) in the Gr.1 Champions Mile (1600m) at Flemington.

“In an evenly-run race, his sectionals coming home were as good as any in the race. He just had to get back from that wide draw and that cost him finishing closer,” Forsman said of Aegon’s Champions Mile run.

“It was good to see him measure up against that sort of line-up. That’s the best of what’s going around at a mile in Australia at the moment. It was great and he’s travelled home and settled in very well since.”

While that gives Forsman a grand opportunity of snaring the 27th Group One of his career and second training on his own account, his more immediate focus is on two stakes races at Pukekohe on Saturday.