Rebel Dane kicks off his new campaign in the star studded Missile Stakes with a new jockey and residual fitness on his side.

Blake Shinn rode the four-year-old for the first time in a solo gallop between races at Rosehill on Saturday, an outing trainer Gary Portelli used to help settle Rebel Dane's nerves.

"He is a horse who gets nervous on race days so it's good to give him a float trip and a day out," Portelli said.

"He was worked up in the stalls before his gallop. He's just that sort of horse.

"The gallop was pleasing but I think Blake may have been a bit conservative after I told him not to get him going early.

"The horse is very fit and is ready to go first-up into the Missile."

Rebel Dane only had a short break after his two-length seventh in Stradbroke Handicap on June 7 at Eagle Farm.

His opposition in Saturday's Group Two Missile Stakes (1200m) at Randwick is likely to include fellow Group One winners Boban, Laser Hawk and Kirramosa.

Group One placegetters Sweet Idea, Weary and Tiger Tees will also be entered for the weight-for-age sprint.

Not much went right for Rebel Dane in his four-start autumn/winter campaign which began with a second to Lankan Rupee on a heavy track in the TJ Smith Stakes.

He then finished fifth in the All Aged and fourth in the Doomben 10,000 before the Stradbroke.

Glen Boss dumped him after the 10,000 leaving the door open for a new rider.

"Blake has been booked for the Missile and then the Memsie in Melbourne," Portelli said.

"We will look at his program after the Memsie.

"He is in good order and the thing I would like most is to draw good barriers. That really hampered him last campaign."

The Group One Memsie (1400m) on August 30 at Caulfield is over the same track and distance as Rebel Dane's finest moment in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes last spring.