A favourable barrier draw has boosted trainer Tony McEvoy's confidence about the chances of Turbo Street landing a city victory at Sandown.

Turbo Street was scheduled to run over 2000m at Flemington on Saturday but the meeting was called off because of extreme heat.

Instead he lines up in Wednesday's $80,000 Cable Beach Club Resort & Spa Plate (2100m), one of two races added to the Sandown program to accommodate horses heading to the Bagot Handicap on New Year's Day.

The four-year-old began his campaign with back-to-back provincial wins at Geelong and Bendigo, running home from the back of the field on both occasions.

He ventured to town on December 5 for an 1800m-benchmark 84 in which he finished fifth.

"He really impressed me in his two wins going against the patterns of those meetings. He was the only horse to come from that far back and circle the field and won very well," McEvoy said.

"The other day at Sandown the barrier forced us to go back again too far. It was a very muddling run affair and he just couldn't make up the ground."

Turbo Street hasn't won beyond 1700m but McEvoy thinks he will handle the step up to 2100m.

"It might be his limit in distance but the beauty of Wednesday's race is he has 54-1/2 kilos and barrier four," the trainer said.

"He won't have to give them as big a start. He's only been going back as far as he has because of the gates. He can sit midfield and he'll have four or five lengths less to make up in the final 400 metres than he's had to.

McEvoy also has Irish import Sir Leliani in Wednesday's 2400m benchmark 70 and believes the lightly raced five-year-old has come on from his midfield finish first-up over the same distance at Sandown earlier this month at his second Australian start.

"He's made good progress out of his first-up run over a mile-and-a-half and I'm looking forward to him running again and to learning more about him,' McEvoy said.