Premier trainer Robert Heathcote is supremely confident quality stayer Our Lukas is on target to score back-to-back wins in Saturday's $200,000 Ipswich Cup (2150m).Our Lukas showed he was back to his best form with a decisive win at Eagle Farm on Stradbroke day and Heathcote said the six-year-old had recovered well."He'll be very hard to beat - I'm sure of that," Heathcote said."I couldn't be happier with how he pulled up and he is in perfect order."He's bucking his brand off and you wouldn't kn

Premier trainer Robert Heathcote is supremely confident quality stayer Our Lukas is on target to score back-to-back wins in Saturday's $200,000 Ipswich Cup (2150m).

Our Lukas showed he was back to his best form with a decisive win at Eagle Farm on Stradbroke day and Heathcote said the six-year-old had recovered well.

"He'll be very hard to beat - I'm sure of that," Heathcote said.

"I couldn't be happier with how he pulled up and he is in perfect order.

"He's bucking his brand off and you wouldn't know he had been around on Saturday. It was a soft win."

Stathi Katsidis rode Our Lukas to victory on Saturday and Heathcote said he had put his reputation on the line to convince the hoop's manager Trevor Lanskey to accept the ride.

"As is always the case I was finding it hard to get a rider because his form had been a bit ordinary leading into it," Heathcote said.

"But there were excuses for that. "He had some bruising on the soles of his feet and I said to Trevor 'you're going to have trust me and take me on my word that the horse is ready to win'.

"Stathi will ride him again at Ipswich and I doubt he would swap him for any other ride."

Heathcote set Our Lukas for the Ipswich Cup at the start of his campaign and he has followed the exact same preparation as he did in 2009.

"I gave him three runs leading into it last year and I have done exactly the same thing this year," Heathcote said.

"If anything he's better this year because he's a more mature horse."

Heathcote said Our Lukas' racing pattern was ideal for the tight Ipswich circuit and he envisaged the horse would settle in the first half of the field on Saturday.

"I don't think the Ipswich Cup is really a genuine staying test and you rarely see a swooper get home and win the race," Heathcote said.

"He is the ideal type for it because he's an on-speed horse and makes his own luck."