The weather will determine if trainer Tim Martin gets an early shot at Group One glory in Brisbane this winter.
The trainer has Queensland carnival aspirations for handy mare Fibrillation, who has raced in career-best form this autumn, and last start Gosford Guineas winner Pampelonne.
After posting back-to-back wins in the Aspiration Quality and Epona Stakes, Fibrillation just failed to make it a hat-trick when she beat all but Skyerush in the Emancipation Stakes on the final day of the Sydney carnival.
Martin is keen to keep her going while she is in a purple patch of form and is hoping it keeps raining in Queensland.
Fibrillation excels in the wet and if she can get her favoured conditions next Saturday week, Martin will give her a shot at the Group One Doomben Cup (2000m).
“She’s a real wet tracker,” Martin said.
“I’m keeping an eye on the weather up there and if it’s wet for the Doomben Cup we’ll go there on the way through.”
Martin’s main target for Fibrillation is the Brisbane Cup (2400m) at Eagle Farm on June 9.
Pampelonne has also earned a trip north although his next start will be closer to home in the rich Scone Guineas (1400m) on May 19.
The lightly-raced gelding is unbeaten in two starts this campaign and has never finished further back than second in five runs.
Martin has ambitious aims for the Alan Bell-owned three-year-old who will bid to follow a similar path to the Stephen Farley-trained Sincero 12 months ago.
Sincero claimed the Gosford and Scone Guineas then flopped on his Queensland debut in the QTC Cup before rebounding to win the Group One Stradbroke Handicap.
“I contemplated going to the Hawkesbury Guineas with him but I do have the Stradbroke in mind if he was to win well at Scone,” Martin said.
“I thought if he goes to Hawkesbury and then Scone I’ll have no horse for Brisbane.
“I’d like to go straight into the Stradbroke (after the Scone Guineas) but he may not get a run.
“In saying that, I might chance my hand and hope the field falls away.
“There is the QTC Cup a week before it if I am concerned.”
The $1 million Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) is at Eagle Farm on June 9.
