Gold Coast trainer Bruce Hill hopes to be formulating interstate spring plans for Hey Elvis after the Ray White Open Handicap at Doomben.Hill is stepping Hey Elvis up to 2020 metres for the first time in his 18-start career following his impressive last-start victory in a 1625-metre Plate at Toowoomba on July 11.In-form jockey Stathi Katsidis rode Hey Elvis in the rising five-year-old's cushion track victory at Toowoomba and will again partner him on Saturday.Katsidis replaced Michael Cahill who

Gold Coast trainer Bruce Hill hopes to be formulating interstate spring plans for Hey Elvis after the Ray White Open Handicap at Doomben.

Hill is stepping Hey Elvis up to 2020 metres for the first time in his 18-start career following his impressive last-start victory in a 1625-metre Plate at Toowoomba on July 11.

In-form jockey Stathi Katsidis rode Hey Elvis in the rising five-year-old's cushion track victory at Toowoomba and will again partner him on Saturday.

Katsidis replaced Michael Cahill who rode Hey Elvis in his two previous starts when eighth in the Listed Phil Sullivan Hcp (1600m) and fifth in the Listed Centenary Mile (1600m) at Eagle Farm last month.

"There were excuses for his defeat in the Phil Sullivan as he missed the start and it was a heavy track," Hill said.

"Then in the Centenary Mile he pulled hard for some reason and he's never done that before in his life.

"I don't know why he pulled that day so I thought I would try another rider just to see how he'd go at Toowoomba."

Hey Elvis has won five times in his career and was rated good enough by Hill to warrant a trip to Sydney last year for the Group Two Villiers Stakes at Randwick in December.

The son of Clang lived up to Hill's expectations going down in a photo-finish to Something Anything in the 1600-metre feature after sitting three deep without cover.

Hill is yet to decide if Hey Elvis will return to Sydney for the spring or possibly Melbourne if the gelding shows he can handle a middle distance.

"Tomorrow will tell me a lot more," Hill said.

"I can't see why he won't run the trip. His mother (Queen Of Song) won up to 1800 metres."

Hill was reluctant to speculate what races Hey Elvis would target if an interstate trip was confirmed but wouldn't rule out the Group One Epsom Handicap (1600m) at Randwick in October.

"He's won over a mile and he showed what he can do by running second in the Villiers," he said.

"I haven't mapped out any plans yet and I want to see if he can run a middle distance.

"If he runs well there's plenty of nice races for him in either Sydney or Melbourne."

The Bevan Laming-trained Crossthestart may prove the hardest to beat for Hey Elvis.

The Cape Cross gelding rattled home to finish third to Jacqueline Rouge in the Listed Tattersall's Mile (1600m) at Eagle Farm last week after scoring over 1800 metres in restricted class at his previous start at Eagle Farm on July 4.