Home ground advantage and a steep dip in class are the key ingredients for speedy mare The Neon Knight to make a long overdue return to the winners stall.

The Jeff Englebrecht-trained mare won four consecutive races spanning from December 7, 2020, to February 6 in 2021, rocketing through her grades – even leaping from a class 1 to a class 3, in the midst of her hot summer.

However things have cooled off a bit since then for The Neon Knight, results-wise, with a losing streak now out to ten.

That said, Englebrecht’s mare was, and has been, running in far superior company to what she met at Tuncurry or Coffs or Port or even Newcastle when she was winning.

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In fact, on March 3 in what was supposed to be an unassuming Benchmark 72 Warwick Farm midweeker, The Neon Knight encountered a pre-Everest but unbeaten Lost And Running.

‘“She ran some nice races and some average races in town,’ Englebrecht said of the mare’s current campaign.

‘Average’ would best sum up her last one, a fading six-lengths second last at Royal Randwick’s annual Melbourne Cup day meet.

‘’I am not quite sure what was going on that day. Whether it was the dry surface or whatever, I’m not too sure but I have taken the blinkers back off her for this and just gone back to the ear muffs and tongue tie,’’ Englebrecht explained.

“The track will be wet on Tuesday and any moisture will help her.

‘’She’s had to contest pretty much every race in town (this preparation) except for the one at Newcastle where she ran on really well behind that good horse of Gary Portelli's, Capital Reign.

‘’She just threw a curve ball at us the other day at Randwick, so this gives me the opportunity to see where she is at.

“If she is disappointing, she can go for a holiday for a couple of months and we’ll get her back in and race her through the winter next year. Even if she wins, she might even go for a break,’’ Englebrecht said.

Tuesday’s assignment is a long way short of most, if not all of The Neon Knight’s nine starts this campaign and what’s more it will be run over her pet trip of 1000m.

“From that barrier, she should be able to sit in behind a few and hopefully get a bit of luck,’’ Englebrecht said of gate seven.

‘’They won’t muck around as normal at Wyong, they usually get out and get moving so that sort of suits her.”

The Neon Knight has won just sort of $130,000 in her 19 starts which is a healthy return on the $21,000 Dr Ule Crosson paid for her at the 2019 Magic Millions Yearling Sale.

‘’Touch wood, there’s nothing wrong with her, she’s won a bit of money and her record is about 50 per cent placings so she’s done all right,’’ Englebrecht said.

Crosson, a GP and avid racing enthusiast is also a devout heavy metal fan.

For those who don’t know, Neon Knight was a 1980 (loud) tune for Black Sabbath.