STEVE O’Halloran wasn’t intending to have another shot at a $1m race with Mal Coupe so soon. But he says his stable star has done so well that he changed his mind and will run him in Saturday’s Group 2 The Shorts (1100m) at Royal Randwick. The Hawkesbury trainer was pleased with Mal Coupe’s first-up seventh (beaten only three lengths) to outstanding mare Tempted in the $1m Group 2 Concorde Stakes (1000m) at Randwick on September 5. “I was thinking of waiting for a Benchmark 9