Ex-Godolphin speedster primed for first-up tilt at rich sprint.

Richard Litt won a feature sprint race with Barber in his first preparation with the ex-Godolphin speedster and the Warwick Farm trainer is out to kick off his second campaign with another.

The Exceed And Excel five-year-old resumes in Saturday's $300,000 The Warra (1000m), which is the feature sprint race on The Gong program at Kembla Grange.

A $215,000 Inglis Digital purchase late last year for Monarch Racing, Barber won the Listed Takeover Target Stakes at his second start for Litt and later finished third in the Listed Ramornie Handicap at his most recent appearance and Litt is excited about getting him back to the track.

"He's a wonderful horse, he did his job in his first preparation with us, paying his owners back immensely, so if we can knock off one or two more races he's really done his job," Litt said.

"We've had this race in our sights for a very long time. We purposely tipped them out at the right time, he had a good spell, he's come back and he's come back very, very good."

Barber, who won a $1m Golden Gift and Group 3 Blue Diamond Preview when trained by James Cummings, has had two Warwick Farm trials in preparation for his return, finishing sixth in each, but was not knocked around in either, which was a deliberate ploy by Litt.

"We've mindfully kept him very, very fresh," he said.

"He's a horse that can be a little bit lazy and very unassuming in his work, but we also needed to do enough with him to make sure that he's ready for game day.

"I was very happy with his trials, he's come through them very well and he's ready to rock and roll.

"He probably isn't a true 1000-metre horse but I think the race will map out wonderfully for him. It'll probably be on fast enough ground, at a fast tempo, he'll be just in behind the speed and you know he's going to get a good crack at them late."