Super sprinter Lankan Rupee will return to trainer Mick Price's stable on Monday to begin preparing for the spring.

Lankan Rupee was unbeaten during his four-start autumn campaign which began with victory in the Group Two Rubiton Stakes.

His dominance in the three Group One races he contested, the Oakleigh Plate, Newmarket Handicap and TJ Smith Stakes, elevated him to the top of the world's sprint rankings.

Price said races such as the Group One Manikato Stakes and Patinack Farm Classic were the obvious spring targets for Lankan Rupee.

The Caulfield horseman says the plan is to give Lankan Rupee five runs in his spring preparation, beginning with the Group Two McEwen Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley on September 6.

"I saw him the other day and he looks fantastic and looks well," Price said.

"He's sound and he's happy and good as gold.

"It will be the first week of June coming back into work and he'll be ready to race at the end of August."

Lankan Rupee thrashed his opposition in the TJ Smith Stakes on heavy ground in the autumn to convince Price the Redoute's Choice gelding would handle racing over 1400 metres.

But the trainer said a wet spring would not be ideal for the rising five-year-old.

"A wet spring is not what I want," Price said.

Lankan Rupee's potential was obvious when he won his first two starts as an early three-year-old.

But he has blossomed since his owner Muzaffar Yaseen consented to having him gelded.

Yaseen has retained ownership of Lankan Rupee after reducing his racing and breeding stock at a spectacular dispersal sale last week.

Lankan Rupee's dam Estelle Collection fetched $1.4 million while Monsoon Wedding, a daughter of Shantha's Choice, went for $2.3 million.

Shantha's Choice was Yaseen's first venture into Australian racing but her career was cut short by injury and her legacy is as a brood mare.

Her most famous son is Redoute's Choice, a multiple Group One winner on the track and a champion sire.

Yaseen's dispersal sale realised $23 million.