Hot Spin (pictured) will run in the McKenzie Stakes at Moonee Valley after bypassing Sepoy last weekend

Hot Spin will run in the McKenzie Stakes at Moonee Valley this Saturday after his trainer choose to avoid Sepoy in the Vain Stakes last weekend.

Co-trainer Mark Zahra and connections of Hot Spin opted against sending the gelding out to take on in-form Sepoy last Saturday.

The three-year-old will be using the McKenzie Stakes to begin his Caulfield Guineas campaign.

“He’s on a Caulfield Guineas campaign but whether he gets there is a different thing,” Zahra said.

“The run at Wodonga was good and his last two runs have been fantastic.

“He’s done a great job but he’s always shown us a lot. He hasn’t done much wrong his whole career.

“He’s probably a touch underrated if anything and we think he’ll definitely get 1400 metres and a mile (1600m). He’s a pretty laid-back sort of horse.

“We put the blinkers on him just to switch him on a bit and to get him to concentrate and it’s done the job.

“If he happens to run well at Moonee Valley on Saturday we will just keep him on a Guineas campaign.”

Hot Spin has won two of his six race starts as a two year old and has accrued more than $110,000 in prize money.