Heavy track key to Mulaazem hopes in Hobartville Stakes Mulaazem will face a tough task at the Hobartville Stakes. VICTORIA'S leading trainer Peter Moody is counting on race fitness - and a heavy track - to upset the champion three-year-olds in Saturday's Group 2 Hobartville Stakes at Rosehill. His last-start Autumn Stakes winner Mulaazem is heading north to take on Gai Waterhouse's super duo Pierro and Proisir, Spring Champion Stakes winner It's A Dundeel, former New Zealand star Sacred Falls and the unbeaten and super impressive Rebel Dane in the 1400m race. Mulaazem gave a bold front-running display to defeat Fiveandahalfstar and Super Cool in the Group 2 Autumn Stakes over 1400m on February 9 at Caulfield. The colt has won three of his six starts, including his past two. "He is fit and racing really well," Moody said yesterday. This is a crack field, but he could make them work really hard, especially in heavy conditions, and he may just have the fitness edge to find them wanting. The son of Dubai Destination won by 10 lengths on a heavy 10 track at Sandown in July. The rain that has pelted Sydney for the past week should ensure a testing surface at Rosehill on Saturday. The task will not be easy, but Moody considers that setting a fast pace on a heavy track could be the way to upset the favourites. Pierro and Proisir may be vulnerable first-up in the wet. Pierro has not started since finishing third in the Cox Plate last October, although he has had two trials. Proisir, also unraced since the Cox Plate, has not won on a track worse than a dead 4, and It's A Dundeel is in a similar boat. Sacred Falls, now with Chris Waller, has won in the wet, and Rebel Dane, unbeaten in four starts, has won on a slow 6 at Rosehill. Jim Cassidy will ride New Zealand 2000 Guineas winner Sacred Falls, replacing suspended Kiwi jockey Leith Innes. After six wins in six NZ starts, Sacred Falls suffered his first defeat when he finished fifth as favourite to Rebel Dane in the 1200m Royal Sovereign Stakes at Rosehill last Saturday week.