Young confirmed next week's Group 1 South Australian Derby (2500m) is firmly on the agenda for American Wolf, provided the son of Tivaci comes through the St Leger well.
"Definitely if he pulls up well, eats up, all the usual things, you might as well, you're only three once. You don't have to do much with him, he's run 28 (hundred metres) today, he's going to run 25 next week, so you've just got to tick him over basically," Young said.
While Young was confident in suggesting American Wolf would be highly competitive in a South Australian Derby, jockey John Allen, who has won the race four times in the past ten years, was a touch more conservative.
"You'd like to think so," Allen said.
"He's a horse on the up, lightly raced, he seems big and strong enough, as long as he comes through that run well enough. But he seems to have a good enough constitution, so I reckon he'll be certainly there with a fighter's chance."