Werribee Cup winner Mandela has rejoined his original trainer Richard Yuill in New Zealand.

Mandela has spent the last 14 months under the care of Mike Moroney and Russell Cameron in Melbourne and was being prepared for a tilt at next month's Hobart and Launceston Cups.

However the five-time Group winner arrived back at Yuill's Pukekohe stables on Monday and will be a starter at Trentham on Saturday in the Listed Anniversary Handicap (1600m).

Mandela has been sent back to New Zealand with the Group One $1 million Auckland Cup at Ellerslie on March 4 as his major target.

Yuill saddled Mandela to finish a creditable ninth in the 2006 Melbourne Cup after winning the Geelong Cup.

He was back in Melbourne with Yuill in 2007 but after a fruitless campaign his owners David and Elizabeth Olsen left him with Moroney at Flemington.

He won the Werribee Cup last spring for Moroney but was switched to Russell Cameron and resumed over 1400m at Flemington on New Year's Day before the decision was made to send him back to New Zealand.

"He arrived back to me in great order and I rang Russell immediately to compliment him," Yuill said.

Mandela began his career with trainer Richard Otto and as a 3YO won the Avondale Guineas and Wellington Stakes before finishing second to Xcellent in the NZ Derby.

Under Yuill's guidance he captured the Geelong Cup, Chairman's Handicap at Doomben and Evans Classic at Pukekohe.