A tricky draw can't dampen the hype around Jilliby Nitro, whose class-of-his-own heat run appears to have the latest Lee stable prodigy well-placed for Group 1 glory.

Reinsman Jason Lee said he "couldn't be happier with" Jilliby Nitro ahead of Friday night's $100,000 Bathurst Gold Crown Final, despite the two-year-old drawing outside the front row.

"He's travelled up great and his run in the heat was really good," Lee told RSN 927's Gait Speed. "We're really happy with the horse, a little bit disappointed with the barrier draw but the old saying goes it's only a bad gate before the race."

The Bettors Delight colt out of Kiewa Valley was snapped up for $80,000 at the 2018 Australian Pacing Gold sale in Sydney, where Lee said his mum, trainer Marg Lee, and "the uncles ... paid a bit of money for him".

"After (Jilliby) Kung Fu won up in Sydney they sort of went out and spent the winnings the next day," he said. "We've always had a nice opinion of him. You never know until you set them loose, but he's always shone plenty at home, we've just always liked him and the more we've asked of him the better he's got."

So much so that Lee said the stable has fast-tracked the two-year-old's program to ready him for Friday night's feature over the border.

"He was good first-up in Bendigo and (we) probably just thought this series was here and while the horse was fit and healthy we'd come and have a go at it," Lee said.

"The APG was probably the original plan to have him up and going for that. He's come along nice and was ready to go, so probably about six weeks ago we looked into this and started to plan around this."

It certainly appeared on Saturday night they had pulled the right rein with Jilliby Nitro untroubled in the Dudley Hotel Gold Crown Heat 4, winning by 21.6m in a 1:54.4 mile rate, 3.1 seconds faster than any of the other five heats.

"This guy, he's just a real natural," Lee said. "He's still learning, but does everything so well and clicks on pretty quick. Without getting too far ahead of ourselves I do really like him.

"He's just got to put his front foot forward and hopefully keep going well and we'll be happy as long as he runs a big race."

Lee flagged a want to be aggressive out of the gate despite the wide draw.

"We probably haven't come 12 hours just to go around. We looked after him out of the gate first up, then here the other night we let him run the gate without making him do it, he just did it on his own," he said.

"From out there it's hard to know, it will be one of those calls you have to make when the gate goes, but at this stage I'd say I will be running the gate as good as I can and getting up amongst it."

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