Group One placegetter Carrick's Australian experience has been less than ideal so far but trainer Danny Williams believes he can regain his confidence and his form.

Third in Silent Achiever's 2012 New Zealand Derby, Carrick was brought across the Tasman by then trainer Tony Pike earlier this year but a foot infection stopped his campaign after one run in Queensland.

Owner Alan Cardy decided to keep him in Australia and he was spelled after his first race under Williams in July when he finished last in an 1800m race at Rosehill.

He comes back to the races at Randwick in Saturday's Benchmark 95 (1400m) with Peter Robl aboard.

"He obviously hadn't fully recovered from the infection so we decided to give him a good spell," Williams said.

"He is a nice big horse who will be at his best when he gets up to 2000 metres and beyond.

"We need to get his confidence back and get him winning.

"He has been up in the weights since he was a three-year-old and it takes a long time for the rating to come down.

"It makes it harder for the older horses to get back to the level they were at."

Holding a benchmark of 89, Carrick will carry 56kg on Saturday with Said Com the 59.5kg topweight ahead of his Chris Waller-trained stablemate Tromso on 59kg.

The meeting will be run on the StrathAyr Kensington track with the course proper being saved until the Villiers meeting a week later.

The two-year-old race on the program attracted 16 entries with Occitan the main attraction as she tries to extend Peter Snowden's winning streak with Darley's juvenile fillies to five over as many Saturdays.

Blue Diamond Stakes favourite Earthquake began the sequence on November 9 and was followed by Memorial, Occitan and Memorial again.

Kerrin McEvoy will ride in the International Jockey's challenge at Hong Kong's Happy Valley on Wednesday then return to ride Occitan three days later.