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Guineas locked in for Prelude winner

Clinton McDonald remained unsure of whether Angel Capital was a sprinter or miler heading into Saturday's Caulfield meeting, but he at least knows which way he's heading.

The explosive colt will be given his chance to prove himself a miler after making it back-to-back wins for the campaign in the Caulfield Guineas Prelude.

He followed up his first-up win in a roughhouse McKenzie Stakes (1200m) with a bob-and-weave win in Saturday's 1400m Group 3, which proved to McDonald he deserved a shot at the $2m Guineas (1600m) on October 12.

"We do think he'll run a mile," McDonald said after the win.

"Obviously, that was a great win, he had to get back to the worst ground and lost momentum, and the horses down the outside had the momentum.

"We think he's a proper colt and he's showing us that now."

Angel Capital ($5.50) took his record to three wins from five starts with his long-neck win over Written Tycoon colt Public Attention ($16). Wanaruah ($4.60) was just a short-head back third.

McDonald has every right to believe Angel Capital will run a strong 1600m with the son of Harry Angel out of the Teofilo mare Bahamas, which makes him a half-brother to Senor Toba and Berkeley Square.

He is now an $11 chance in the Caulfield Guineas, betting on which is headed by the James Cummings-trained Broadsiding ($3.50).