Trainers Mick Price and Michael Kent Jr patiently awaited the right Heavy track for La Fracas, and Warrnambool provides it now.

This mudlark is eager to extend his flawless record on the wettest surfaces in Wednesday’s $200,000 Listed Wangoom Handicap (1200m).

The imported speedster’s third and freshest Heavy run was Sandown on July 2 last year, prevailing by 2-3/4 lengths.

Price and Kent commenced the sprinter’s season in Sydney hunting wet conditions, managing only Soft 6 in the Group 3 Star Kingdom Stakes (1200m) where he was seventh.

“I try to have him fit and well for the right races on wet surfaces,” Price said.

“We even had him in Sydney trying to catch the wet tracks but they didn’t come, strangely enough.

“But I’m happy with him, his action is great and I think he’ll run very well.”

For the Wangoom, the track’s Heavy level at Warrnambool’s 3.20pm AEST post time remains the variable.

Heading into Tuesday’s Day 1, it was Heavy 8, little rain slated then, but 15mm potentially on Wednesday.

Thrilled as Price is for Night Of Thunder gelding’s Heavy return, he knows the Wangoom is the 18th carnival race.

“The difficulty with Warrnambool I’ve found over the years with my horses, albeit we’ve trained some winners there, is that you can have a wet tracker that doesn’t handle that choppy surface,” he said.

“But he’s going very well and I think he’ll be beautifully suited because it’s a tough 1200 there and he’s a tough 1200-metre horse.”

La Fracas meets 54.5kg in the Wangoom Handicap, Beau Mertens steering from draw three.

By Tuesday, he was $4.20 second elect behind sharp local three-year-old Oliveanotherday ($2.20).

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