REDZEL only needs a top three finish at Royal Randwick to surpass Chautauqua as Australia’s highest prizemoney-winning sprinter.

But regular rider Kerrin McEvoy is confident Redzel can continue his winning form and take out the Group 2 $200,000 The Shorts (1100m).

“I was happy with his work on Tuesday morning,’’ McEvoy said. “I ride the horse in most of his main gallops and he has taken improvement from his first-up win, for sure. The horse is enjoying himself at the moment and it is all positive going into (Saturday’s) race.’’

The Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Redzel is the quintessential sprinter, contesting 26 races at distances up to 1200m, winning 13 and amassing $8,810,750 in earnings.

Chautauqua is the only sprinter to have earned more prizemoney with $8,821,935 from his 32-start career that also includes 13 wins up to 1400m.

It is remarkable to think the two greatest stakes-winning sprinters are racing in the same era and just a few years after the mighty Black Caviar, arguably the best sprinter of them all, was retired as the winner of all 25 races she contested, earning $7,953,936 prizemoney.

Redzel is the $1.90 TAB Fixed Odds favourite to win The Shorts, take his stakes money to $8,920,100 and fifth on the all-time list of Australia’s greatest prizemoney earners, moving past Chautauqua and So You Think ($8,813,497).

The mighty Winx is the greatest prizemoney winner in Australian racing history and is hot favourite to improve her career earnings to $19,547,424 with her 27th win in succession in the Group 1 George Main Stakes on Saturday.

The Shorts is like a mini-Everest with four starters on Saturday also confirmed as runners in the $13 million dash for cash at Royal Randwick on October 13 – Redzel, Brave Smash, English and Invincible Star.

“This is a great race with some Everest hopes in the field so it will paint a clearer picture for the main race next month,’’ McEvoy said.

“I know Peter and Paul (Snowden) will have Redzel at his peak for the big day. He will have a month between runs into The Everest, which is the tried and tested formula that worked so well last year.’’

Redzel took out the Concorde Stakes-The Shorts double last year before his famous win in the inaugural The Everest.

The Snowden’s are following the identical race program with Redzel this spring and believe the six-year-old is going as well as ever.

Peter Snowden said Redzel had taken benefit from his Concorde Stakes comeback win.

“He’s tightened up nicely, his coat hasn’t come all the way through but it looks better,’’ Snowden told Racing NSW.

“He took some benefit from that last run so he is on track again.’’

Redzel is striving to become the first to win successive Shorts since King’s Favourite in 1976-77.

“It is difficult to win all the time but a horse like him, while he’s not a Winx, he’s very genuine,’’ Snowden said. “He tries so hard every time he goes out. He handles it wet and dry, good gates and bad gates, the variables that stop other horses.

“He just does everything right and most of the time you are going to win or run well rather than need luck to get the best out of them.’’