Derby favourite Complacent's path puzzles Peter Snowden DARLEY trainer Peter Snowden will decide today whether Victoria Derby favourite Complacent will have a lead-up run in Saturday's Group II Mitchelton Wines Vase. While Snowden's preference is understood to be to go straight to the $1.5 million classic at Flemington on Saturday week, a final decision will be made this morning after the colt worked at Moonee Valley yesterday. He had a good look around. That's what we came here for," Snowden said. To come here and see the surroundings and to see how close they are to the grandstand, I think that's important to him. Snowden said he was "pleasantly surprised" to see Complacent had put on a "bit of beef" since he arrived in Melbourne after his latest victory in the Group I Spring Champion Stakes at Randwick (2000m) last Saturday week. "That's why I gave him a bit more work than I would normally," Snowden said. In my mind, he's had the prep to go straight to a Derby. I don't really think he needs a lot of racing. He's not a gross horse, so I'm still in two minds whether to run him (on Saturday). Complacent worked outside stablemate Chasse yesterday before coasting to the line. He ran 1400m in 1.37.45, his final 400m in 24.53. Snowden said his Cox Plate three-year-old Long John did not need to work around the tight Moonee Valley track yesterday. "He's had four runs in now and he's as fit as I'm going to get him," he said. Instead, the last-start Caulfield Guineas winner worked solo at Flemington. Snowden described his training gallop as "sharp." "He's normally an average track worker, but on his own this morning he was excellent," he said. He's in a good place. Long John drew barrier 10 and Snowden said his best chance would be to race on the pace. "Our best chance is if we can put ourselves there and tough it out," he said. Meanwhile, promising stayer Oasis Bloom has been banned for three months after bleeding from both nostrils after working at Moonee Valley yesterday. The Group II winner would have run in the Moonee Valley Cup on Saturday after her second to Sea Moon at Caulfield on October 12. It has been a tough 10 days for her connections and co-trainers Peter Morgan and Craig Widdison, who also lost promising stayer Star Rolling for the spring. He went amiss when unplaced in the Cranbourne Cup after slipping at the start and tearing muscles in both hind legs.