Metropolitan Handicap failure Hume will leave Newcastle by road on Tuesday night to run in the Group Three David Jones Cup at Caulfield on Saturday.Trainer Brian Smith cleared Hume to continue his spring campaign following a sparkling track gallop at Newcastle's Broadmeadow track on Tuesday.Stathi Katsidis will ride Hume in the David Jones Cup (2000m), formerly the Coongy Handicap, as well as Golden Slipper winner Phelan Ready in the Group Two Caulfield Sprint (1110m) and Chinchilla Rose in the

Metropolitan Handicap failure Hume will leave Newcastle by road on Tuesday night to run in the Group Three David Jones Cup at Caulfield on Saturday.

Trainer Brian Smith cleared Hume to continue his spring campaign following a sparkling track gallop at Newcastle's Broadmeadow track on Tuesday.

Stathi Katsidis will ride Hume in the David Jones Cup (2000m), formerly the Coongy Handicap, as well as Golden Slipper winner Phelan Ready in the Group Two Caulfield Sprint (1110m) and Chinchilla Rose in the Group Two Tristarc Stakes (1400m).

Smith won the Coongy Handicap in 1990 with Kessem and six years later with Circles Of Gold.

Hume failed to handle the wet track in the Group One The Metropolitan (2400m) at Randwick last start when the six-year-old finished second last to Speed Gifted.

He is also nominated for the Listed Tattersall's Club Cup (2400m) at Randwick on Saturday but Smith decided after the Newcastle gallop to roll the dice and head to Melbourne after receiving a glowing report from his travelling foreman Carolyn Litton.

"He worked left-handed over 1600 metres on the course proper today and my foreman said he worked in good style," Smith said.

"He had a hard gallop at Newcastle last Saturday and he's very bright and has never looked better."

Smith has ruled out running Hume in next month's Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington and will treat the trip as a learning experience for a possible Cups bid next year.

"There's only one way to go with him now," Smith said.

"His run at weight-for-age in the Hill Stakes in Sydney showed me enough that he'll make a good handicapper for the Cups races next year.

"He doesn't handle wet tracks so I'm just forgetting he went around in the Metropolitan.

"If he pleases me on Saturday I'll probably run him in either the Queen Elizabeth or Sandown Cup next."

The Group Three Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2500m) will be run at Flemington on November 7 while the Group Two Sandown Classic (2400m) is a week later.

Meanwhile, Smith has booked Ryan Wiggins to partner Moncalieri in a 1600-metre three-year-old race at Randwick on Saturday.

Moncalieri finished second last in her Sydney debut to Little Surfer Girl in the Listed Reginald Allen Quality (1400m) at Randwick last month.

The Encosta De Lago filly's failure cost her a start in the Group One Flight Stakes at Randwick on October 3.

She was also under consideration for a Melbourne trip for Wednesday's Group One Thousand Guineas (1600m) at Caulfield and the Group One VRC Oaks (2500m) at Flemington on November 5.