Brenton Avdulla will be back where it all started on Saturday when he reunites with his favourite horse chasing a Caulfield Cup dream.

Avdulla has been recalled to the saddle of dual Group One winner Secret Admirer for the first time this preparation having been dumped as her rider at the start of the mare's spring campaign.

The Sydney-based jockey says it's a thrill to get back aboard the mare who has given him his two biggest moments in racing and believes he's a chance of adding another highlight at the place where his career first started to take shape.

"I was apprenticed at Caulfield and started there when I was 15 with John Moloney," Avdulla said.

"I went there without ever having put a head collar on a horse and he taught me everything. I was there for a couple of years before I moved to Sydney to be apprenticed to Gai (Waterhouse).

"To go home and be riding in the Caulfield Cup, it would be a big thrill if I could win it. Because that's where everything started."

Secret Admirer has the addition of winkers for the $2.5 million Caulfield Cup and worked in them on Tuesday morning with Avdulla aboard for the first time since the autumn.

The five-year-old Grahame Begg-trained mare hasn't won since last year's Epsom Handicap and Avdulla believes the daughter of Dubawi is primed to cope with her first 2400m test.

"She ran through the line strongly and I think she's working like a mile and a quarter (2000m), mile and a half (2400m) horse now," Avdulla said of the trackwork gallop.

"It was the first time I had been on her for six months but the first feeling she gave me was not like the brilliant 1400 metre to 1600 metre horse she used to be, and she definitely feels like she's matured more.

"The Dubawis do get over a bit of ground overseas and hopefully she can be one of them and run really well."

Secret Admirer gave Avdulla his first Group One win in the Flight Stakes in 2010 and also his biggest career win to date in the Epsom.

It will be his second ride in a Caulfield Cup having finished near the tail of the field on $151 outsider Domesky last year.

"It gave me a good insight into how the race is run and I'm really looking forward to riding a horse I think can run really well on Saturday," Avdulla said.