The last of four $45,000 open handicaps run across winter is the big prize money race on the 10-race card in Devonport on Wednesday.

The race was originally programmed over 2100m in Hobart on 1 September but was one of three races abandoned on that day due to bad weather.

The race shifting from a potentially wet track over 2100m on grass to 1880m on synthetic has completely changed the dynamics of the contest, and it looks to suit two runners who excel on the Devonport track.

The 2024 Ladbrokes Devonport Cup winner, Ashy Boy, was scratched from the Hobart race but will take his place on Wednesday, second-up after finishing fifth behind Sir Simon over 1600m on 11 August.

Trainer Glenn Stevenson was looking at a trip to Victoria for the six-year-old, but the race being moved to his home track appears to be a stroke of good fortune for the Wesley Vale-based trainer.

"Sir Simon is racing in great form and still gets in well, given he is going for three wins on the bounce," Stevenson said.

"We'll take our place though in a race that looks more suitable than it did in Hobart."

Sir Simon has led all the way to win two of three previous $45,000 races run recently, both in Hobart over 1400m and 1600m respectively.

The 11-year-old grey is defying his age, but his record of one win from eight starts at the Devonport track suggests the trip north could be a leveller.

The John Blacker-trained Blonde Suspect is the other horse that looks particularly suited by the race being run in Devonport. The six-year-old is a five-time winner at the track, and ran fifth behind Ashy Boy in this year's Cup but will meet the winner 6.5kg better at the weights on Wednesday.

Blacker, the reigning premiership-winning trainer, has six of the 10 acceptors in the race, including in-form gallopers Montezulu and Zulu Angel.

Wednesday's card is the first of two meetings to be run in Devonport for the week, with nine races programmed at the venue on Sunday.