<p>A $2.7m European purchase last seen racing in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe adds intrigue to Doomben 10,000 day.</p> <p>Sir Delius, known as Delius in his former racing career Europe, will step out for the first time Down Under when he carries 60kg in the Group 3 Chairman's Handicap (2000m) for trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott and his new owners.</p> <p>Purchased for a record-breaking 1.3 million guineas ($A2.7 million) at the Tattersalls Horses in Training Sale at Newmarket last October, Sir Delius won three of his six starts for French trainer Jean-Claude Rouget.</p> <p>Last seen finishing eighth in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, the son of champion galloper Frankel is the favourite to make a winning Australian debut after having two trials in Sydney.</p> <p>Bott said the Queensland winter carnival shaped as the perfect springboard to give the four-year-old a foundation for a Cups tilt during the Melbourne spring carnival.</p> <p>Sir Delius is expected to enjoy the likely heavy track conditions he will encounter at Doomben.</p> <p>"By no means are you going to be seeing the best of him there on Saturday," Bott told Punters.</p> <p>"But we would like to give him a run or two there through the winter, in the hope we can see him conditioned and ready for the spring carnival.</p> <p>"He is up in Brisbane and will be trying to add to his CV, for sure.</p> <p>"He looks well placed on Saturday, although he's obviously going to carry a bit of weight.</p> <p>"We have got him there as forward as we can, he hasn't raced for a while, but we have got him as fit as he can be and he is there to be trying to be winning.</p> <p>"I think he will enjoy a heavy track, he trialled on a heavy track and looks to have a bit of heavy track form.</p> <p>"A dour test on Saturday isn't going to be an issue for him."</p> <p>Regardless of the result on Saturday, Sir Delius will not back up into the Group 1 Doomben Cup the following Saturday.</p> <p>However a tilt at the $1.2m Q22 at Eagle Farm on Stradbroke Handicap day next month could be a possibility.</p> <p>Bott gave an indication of the style of racing to expect from Sir Delius at Doomben.</p> <p>"I don't know if he will be a frontrunning type, but in saying that he's not a completely dour type either," Bott said.</p> <p>"He has actually shown quite a bit of natural speed in the trials we have seen.</p> <p>"He appears to be sharper than some of the horses we have brought over here from Europe previously.</p> <p>"He is not a horse with necessarily an explosive turn of foot or anything like that, he is a stayer in that regard.</p> <p>"But, tactically, he can help himself out on Saturday."</p> <p>The betting market has the Chairman's Handicap as a race in two, with Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young's galloper Immediacy the only other horse close to Sir Delius in betting.</p> <p>Immediacy, striving for three wins in a row after a pair of successes in Victoria, is a second pick.</p>