Bush maiden Steel Wool will have clocked up nearly 3000km in separate road trips once he returns to his country stable after racing at Rosehill on Saturday.

It's a schedule that would test the best traveller but Wagga Wagga trainer Chris Heywood is reluctant to pass up a chance to race for metropolitan stakes in the Juvenile Stayer, an 1800-metre race for two-year-olds that has seven acceptors.

With $1000 paid back to the eighth placegetter in Sydney races, Steel Wool will earn petrol money for a trip to Adelaide last week to race at Morphettville and his add-on excursion to Sydney.

"You probably wouldn't do it with any other two-year-old except him because he has such a relaxed nature," Heywood said.

Covering expenses might not be the only upside because Heywood reckons the Rosehill race could confirm a genuine staying future for the cleverly named horse.

"I reckon he's going to be a cracking three-year-old," Heywood said.

"And there's nothing to say he couldn't go back to Adelaide this time next year and run in the South Australian Derby."

Steel Wool has raced four times with his best numerical result coming with his third placing in a Wagga Wagga two-year-old in March.

Yet Heywood had nothing but admiration for the youngster's fourth of nine runners in a Listed race at Morphettville last Saturday.

"He was last on the corner and I thought he went enormous," he said.

Steel Wool was named after the business interests of the two families who shelled out a modest $15,000 for the gelding at a Sydney yearling sale last year.

"One family is into steel fabrication and the other family are sheep farmers so that's how they came up with the name Steel Wool," Heywood said.

In contrast to Steel Wool's adventures, getting to Rosehill won't be as arduous for some with three of his rivals - Standoubt, Bomber Brown and Murta Cape trained on the track.

The favourite is the Wyong-trained Proxy, the only winner in the race who continues his campaign after finishing midfield in the Champagne Stakes.