Brisbane trainer Kelly Schweida has been around long enough not to be seduced into thinking his lightly raced sprinter Better Than Ready will win Saturday's $1 million Newmarket Handicap.

Wayne Hawkes would "love to send the internationals home packing with their tails between their legs on Tuesday".

Trainer Kelly Schweida has Group 1 ambitions for lightly raced three-year-old Better Than Ready, which lowered Randwick’s 1200m track record to 1:08.19 in the Listed ATC Brian Crowley Stakes in Sydney on Saturday.