Doomben summer series contender Nuclear Medicine is a confirmed starter in the Keith Noud Handicap at Eagle Farm after wily trainer Gordon Yorke galloped him left-handed on a sodden Coffs Harbour track on Thursday.The Coffs Harbour meeting set down for Thursday was abandoned due to heavy rain but Yorke received permission from club officials to work the five-year-old anti-clockwise over 1000 metres from the 600-metre marker to the 1600-metre shute."It's something I learned when I used to train a

Doomben summer series contender Nuclear Medicine is a confirmed starter in the Keith Noud Handicap at Eagle Farm after wily trainer Gordon Yorke galloped him left-handed on a sodden Coffs Harbour track on Thursday.

The Coffs Harbour meeting set down for Thursday was abandoned due to heavy rain but Yorke received permission from club officials to work the five-year-old anti-clockwise over 1000 metres from the 600-metre marker to the 1600-metre shute.

"It's something I learned when I used to train at Gosford," Yorke said.

"He had to have a gallop today to run up there (Brisbane) and the club officials at Coffs are great when it comes to things like this.

"The track at Coffs is banked from the 600 metres around to the mile (1600m) shute and I was able to gallop him on the high side where the track was better but still a heavy 10.

"It's not the first time I've done it. I used to do it with Natural Destiny quite often and I've galloped other horses that way in the past.

"I'm paranoid about horses being injured and I want the best surface for them."

Yorke is the only trainer to win the Doomben summer series which he accomplished with Natural Destiny in 2006-07.

Nuclear Medicine is a renowned wet track specialist and will have conditions to his liking at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

The track was rated a heavy nine by course manager Bill Shuck on Thursday.

Eagle Farm received a further 32 millimetres of rain in the second downpour to hit Brisbane this week, taking the total rainfall for the week to 152mm.

Shuck is confident the meeting will proceed despite another storm forecast for Thursday night and again on Saturday.

"There's plenty of water on the track but we managed to mow it yesterday and again today," Shuck said.

"The sun is shining today and the forecast tomorrow is fine but we're due for another storm tonight and sometime on Saturday."

New Zealand-born Yorke came to Australia in the late 1970s and began training at Wyong where he stayed for 17 years.

"After Wyong I trained for seven years at Gosford and I've been at Coffs Harbour for the past three years," he said.

Nuclear Medicine, who has won three of his four starts on heavy tracks, ran the worst race of his 15-start career last outing when he beat just one home in the Group Two Salinger Stakes (1200m) at Flemington on November 1.

"He was two weeks behind the mark for the Salinger. He got to the front 400 metres out but his run died with 200 metres to go," Yorke said.

"It wasn't the ideal preparation and he should have been in Melbourne a week before and had a trial down the straight six.

"He's still an untapped commodity but if he can run 1350 metres during the summer races he'll have a weight-for-age future, otherwise he'll just be a handicapper."