Racing To Win, Winx, Shooting To Win and Denman.

It is a quartet of Group One winners who all emerged from two-year-old winter campaigns to make an impact in spring carnival races.

They are the sorts of horses Chris Waller had in mind when he decided to kick off Vanbrugh's campaign earlier this month.

"I like to identify a few horses like him that a win and a fitness edge could see measure up against the better horses," Waller said.

"In the spring you always see one or two horses take that next step."

Vanbrugh, a winner on debut at Randwick in February, was a closing second to Surfin' Safari when he resumed at Rosehill on July 4.

He will head to Canterbury on Saturday for the McGrath Estate Agents Handicap and is on the second line of betting behind Godolphin-trained favourite Inner Circle.

While Waller is hoping the track rating improves from a heavy nine, he says Vanbrugh has taken benefit from his first-up run.

"He has trained on well, he certainly hasn't missed a beat," Waller said.

"If anything, he has improved from a fitness perspective and he looks better in the coat."

Vanbrugh will be ridden by Sydney jockeys' premiership contender Blake Shinn and will have six rivals following the scratching of the Gai Waterhouse-trained Balboa Park who will contest the other two-year-old race on the Canterbury program.