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Trainer Barry Campbell hopes to continue his hot summer run with a two-pronged attack on the $100,000 Tattsbet Stakes at Mowbray tonight.

Campbell, who has won 10 races in Tasmania in the last month led by his top three-year-old Admiral and promising juvenile Siorca, will saddle up his sprinting stars Grand Tycoon and Arenzano in the 1200m sprint.

The race has attracted only a field of seven but is full of proven class acts.

Grand Tycoon was Tasmania’s best two-year-old two seasons back and ended his three-year-old season with the impressive career record of 10 wins from 14 starts.

He won at his last two outings last season but then required an operation to remove bone chips from a knee.

The four-year-old won first-up in the Winzenberg Quality Handicap (1100m) in Hobart and lost no admirers when second to his stablemate Innocent Gamble at Spreyton on Devonport Cup day.

“Grand Tycoon is a marvel. He is going as good this time in as he ever did,” Campbell said.

“He can carry weight and he is a real bulldog so I expect him to be very hard to beat.”

Arenzano is a speedster and while she is yet to win this time in Campbell says she gets her chance tonight.

“Arenzano is a class mare and from barrier one and with a decent weight advantage I expect her to run a huge race,” the trainer said.

The Scott Brunton-trained Hellova Street is the early favourite ahead of Grand Tycoon and Arenzano.

Hellova Street’s stablemate Royal Rapture and Pitt Street are also in the market.