Superstar Australian Zac Purton will bid for Group One Caulfield Cup (2,400m) glory for the second time after securing the ride on Land Legend in the feature on October 19.

Purton landed the Group One aboard Japanese raider Admire Rakti 10 years ago and will aim to repeat that feat when he teams up with Saturday’s Group One The Metropolitan (2,400m) winner.

Boniface Ho Ka-kui’s Land Legend broke through at the top level at Randwick on Saturday with a narrow victory over the James Cummings-trained Zardozi.

He is around a $9 chance to confirm his superiority over the mare, who will be ridden by Andrea Atzeni, in the Caulfield Cup.

“I was originally meant to ride him when James Ferguson took him down to Australia, but after taking the ride, we realised closer to the race he wasn’t going to get my weight,” Purton said.

“He goes down to Melbourne on the back of a nice win in the Metro. He does a few things wrong but he’s obviously a talented animal.”

The four-year-old son of Galileo won one of his eight starts in Europe before surging to a comfortable win in the St Leger (2,600m) at Randwick on his first start Down Under in October last year.

While he was unable to trouble the judge first up this season, the Chris Waller-trained gelding bounced back with a gutsy victory on Saturday.

He will take aim at the Caulfield Cup before targeting the Group One Melbourne Cup (3,200m), with Purton also booked to ride in the Flemington feature on November 5.

“He’s a little bit wayward so Caulfield might not suit him 100 per cent, but the bigger track at Flemington will,” Purton said. “He’s improving with every run and Chris is very good at getting his horses to peak in the big races on the big day. Hopefully he can do that again with this fella.”

Land Legend is one of four Caulfield Cup runners that will be ridden by Hong Kong-based riders, with Atzeni, Karis Teetan (Coco Sun) and Ben Thompson (Sayedaty Sadaty) also set for the feature.

Before turning his attention to Australia, Purton teamed up with unbeaten youngster Packing Hermod at the Sha Tin trials on Tuesday morning.

An impressive winner on both of his starts last season, the Francis Lui Kin-wai-trained Packing Hermod travelled powerfully throughout and led home a field of eight in his 1,200m hit-out on the dirt.

“He’s obviously a nice horse and he’s still just trying to put it all together in the mornings,” Purton said. “He’s still a bit lightly framed and immature but he’s still showing us what he’s got.

“It will be nice to get him back to the races. He’s got to carry a little bit of weight first time which is not easy, but if we can just get through the first hurdle, hopefully as his fitness builds he can take the steps that he needs to.”

Packing Hermod will undoubtedly aim to follow in the footsteps of last season’s Classic Mile victor, Helios Express, who also took to the Sha Tin dirt for a trial on Tuesday morning.

The John Size-trained gelding finished midfield in his hit-out and is set to start off his season in the Group Two Premier Bowl (1,200m) on October 20.