The Alexandra Park carnival next month will be a watered down version of recent years but that won't stop the north's best trotter.
In fact, champion horseman Tony Herlihy says it may be what Bolt For Brilliance needs.
The two-time Jewels winner is in work at Herlihy's stable after a brave but well-beaten third in Sundees Son's record-smashing Dominion at Addington two weeks ago but without his usual December targets.
With the harness racing calendar being restructured, Alexandra Park features such as the Group 1 National Trot have been moved, leaving next month with a $30,000, $25,000 and $17,500 trot for the open class horses but Herlihy says Bolt For Brilliance will be there.
"He is back in work now and I think a couple of races like that away from the really hard open class racing he has had will do him some good," he says. "The races he has been in have been so tough that to get back into a comfort zone up here and maybe win a race or two will be good for his confidence.