Michael Munro's aptly-named Caribbean Blaster gelding has only finished outside the top two on a single occasion over his past four starts and won by over 15 metres during the most recent outing on his home Bathurst track.

Naturally the opening Art Major Alabar NSW Breeders Challenge Two Year Old Colts and Geldings Heat (1,730 metres) will be a tougher ask than the bulk of his past races but Kalypso King still rates highly in the nine-horse field.

He gets the start from gate four and driver Glen Glenn McElhinney gets the chance to position Kalypso King towards the front of the field.

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Munro said his runner is in fine shape for the $15,000 heat.

"I couldn't have him in a better place at the moment. He's working the house down. He's happy in himself and the draw's good," he said.

"He's got plenty of gate speed but we don't want to have to work him too hard. He's happy to sit in the death seat and that won't worry him at all. I'll leave it up to Glen for what he wants to do.

"Without being overconfident, we're in a pretty good place."

Form suggests the two major threats in the race come from Steve Turnbull's Smooth Baht and Brad Hewitt's Send It.

Smooth Baht takes a big step back in grade after finishing seventh in one of Australasia's leading juvenile races, the $350,000 Australian Pacing Gold Final.

Graeme Board and Co Sales Graduate Final winner Send It is currently on a three race winning stretch - all coming at Bathurst.

The run of top two results for Kalypso King ended recently at Goulburn with a fifth placing, but Munro will be hopeful that remains an outlier in an otherwise impressive record.

Kalypso King showed signs of being a strong prospect for a Gold Crown tilt after his fifth placing in the Group 2 Sapling Stakes but Munro turned his focus towards the Breeders Challenge instead.

"He's a pretty big horse and we thought it was a little too early for him," he said.

"He's still growing, and has grown quite a bit in the last two months, and we thought it would be too much for him. He was a big lump of a thing and we didn't want to put too much pressure on his joints."

In the second colts and geldings heat of the night Saint Emilion and Rockin With Elvis shape up as the two best winning chances.

Turnbull's Saint Emilion showed his class with a Gold Crown Silver Consolation victory while Hewitt's Rockin With Elvis was a last start winner in Goulburn, taking out the race in which Kalypso King was fifth.

Racing starts from 4.38pm.