A reconfigured Hawkesbury racetrack is set to work in favour of Victorian galloper Speediness in the $150,000 Rowley Mile on Saturday.

Once a track with an abbreviated run to the finish, Hawkesury's straight is now one of the longest in Sydney racing after its winning post was shifted 200m, giving backmarkers every chance to work into their races.

"It will give horses a lot more time to balance up and it should suit Speediness," trainer Colin Scott said.

Speediness returns to a new-look Hawkesbury after he was denied by Pimpala Secret in the 2011 Hawkesbury Guineas.

The Rowley Mile will be the first leg of NSW double for the five-year-old with Scott aiming Speediness at the Scone Cup.

It's a racing program cobbled together after a sale fell through earlier this year.

"He was nearly sold and the negotiations put us five to six weeks behind going into the autumn," Scott said.

"After the couple of runs in Melbourne there wasn't much else for him down here and I didn't really want to go to Brisbane.

"The fact that he has raced at Hawkesbury and Scone before made his next two races look like logical options."

Speediness has 57kg in the Listed race with five-time New Zealand Group One winner Veyron topweight with 63kg.

Veyron finished worse than midfield in the George Ryder Stakes but was scratched from the Doncaster Mile when he was lame on race morning.

There are 19 entries for the $150,000 race with trainer Chris Waller entering six runners - five of them northern hemisphere imports.

The Rowley Mile is one of three stakes races run on Saturday with the Waller-trained Say No More the 60kg topweight in the $150,000 Darley Crown.

Say No More is also nominated for the Rowley Mile in which she has 55kg.

Ashokan (58kg) heads the weights for the $150,000 Hawkesbury Guineas.