Group One placegetter Praecido is back home after a brief stint in Adelaide and is among 10 entries for Saturday's Civic Stakes at Rosehill.

The five-year-old left David Payne's Sydney stable earlier this year in the hope Michael Hickmott could coax another win from him but he was unplaced in two clockwise starts.

Although he has only won two races from 41 starts, Praecido has earned more than $600,000 prize money from his big-race performances which include a third to Erewhon in the 2010 Spring Champion Stakes.

Payne has entered him for the Listed Civic Stakes (1350m) as well as the benchmark 85 (1500m) on the program.

"He's been back a couple of months," Payne said.

"I'm not expecting too much on Saturday but there is another win in him somewhere I'm sure.

"He likes the wet ground and he has earned a lot of money for a horse that has only won two races."

Dances On Stars, scratched from Saturday's Sunshine Coast Guineas, is also among the Civic Stakes nominations.

Trainer Gerald Ryan is hoping the track can dry out by Saturday.

"We decided to bring him home and give him a go in this race," he said.

Ryan also has two-year-olds Fastcar and El Sasso in the 1200m race for juveniles.

Both have been unplaced at their only starts on wet tracks but El Sasso's three lengths sixth in February has proven to be full of merit.

Everage and Twilight Royale ran first and second with both fillies going on to win stakes races.

Payne has the regally bred Egyptian Cross in the two-year-old event. The filly is by Commands out of Our Egyptian Raine, a Group One winner in New Zealand and placed 10 times at the highest level in Australia.