World traveller Red Cadeaux will embark on a new stage of his amazing career when he heads to Sydney.

The three-time Melbourne Cup runner-up finished a pleasing fifth in Saturday's Australian Cup won by Spillway.

Flemington is the only track Red Cadeaux has raced on so far in his five visits to Australia.

Robin Trevor-Jones, travelling foreman for Red Cadeaux's trainer Ed Dunlop, said the gelding had come out of the race in good order.

"He looks to have pulled up well," Trevor-Jones said.

"He's wandering around at Werribee eating grass and seems very happy."

Red Cadeaux is entered for the BMW at Rosehill on March 28 as well as the Sydney Cup (3200m) at Randwick two weeks later.

Trevor-Jones said the gelding would head to Sydney on Wednesday, a day later than originally intended.

With a race meeting at Werribee on Monday, Dunlop wants Red Cadeaux to have a trot on the track before the float trip to Sydney where he will join the other international visitors stabled at Canterbury Racecourse.

Trevor-Jones said if the decision was left to him Red Cadeaux would go straight into the Sydney Cup, bypassing the BMW.

He said he did not know what had been discussed between Dunlop and owner Ronald Arculi.

"He's still in both races and we'll just see what he tells us," Trevor-Jones said.

"I would be betting on the side that he will go straight into the Sydney Cup, but I don't really know at this stage."

Trevor-Jones said Red Cadeaux's fifth placing behind Spillway was what he expected over a trip shorter than the stayer's best.

"They've done the course in just a little over two minutes," he said.

"It's pretty quick going, quicker than in the spring carnival on the same type of ground, so we've got to be pleased with that sort of run."

Hugh Bowman, who had his first ride on Red Cadeaux in the Australian Cup, agreed.

"He just found the genuinely run 2000 metres just a bit nippy for him and it took the little speed he has out of him," Bowman said.

"But what I liked was when the pressure started to come, he wanted to fight so he's in a good frame of mind."