Melbourne Cup-qualified Phaze Action's future will be as a hurdler next year even if he wins Saturday's Queensland Cup at Eagle Farm.Bevan Laming, who co-trains the emerging stayer with his son Richard, has ruled out the country's premier race in November as the spring goal for the rising six-year-old.Phaze Action gained automatic qualification for the Melbourne Cup when he won the Listed Andrew Ramsden (3200m) at Flemington on May 16."He's not good enough for the Melbourne Cup," Bevan Laming sa

Melbourne Cup-qualified Phaze Action's future will be as a hurdler next year even if he wins Saturday's Queensland Cup at Eagle Farm.

Bevan Laming, who co-trains the emerging stayer with his son Richard, has ruled out the country's premier race in November as the spring goal for the rising six-year-old.

Phaze Action gained automatic qualification for the Melbourne Cup when he won the Listed Andrew Ramsden (3200m) at Flemington on May 16.

"He's not good enough for the Melbourne Cup," Bevan Laming said.

"He's a limited stayer but he can handle all types of tracks.

"This will be his last run before he goes for a spell and next year he'll go over the hurdles."

Phaze Action will need to pass three barrier trials over the jumps before becoming eligible to compete in races.

"He can jump. He's already had one trial over the hurdles and passed it and there's two more to go," Laming said.

Bevan Laming has never had a starter in the Queensland Cup which is the only 3200-metre feature race in the state after the Brisbane Cup was reduced to 2400 metres two years ago.

"The Queensland Cup used to be run in November but it was too hot and at the wrong time of the year," Laming said.

The Queensland Cup and the Listed Ascot Handicap (1200m) are the two feature races being conducted by the newly-formed Brisbane Racing Club which will host its first-ever meeting on Saturday.

Laming is confident Phaze Action will acquit himself well in the Queensland Cup which will regain its Listed status next year following this week's upgrade by the Pattern Committee.

Phaze Action, a son of New Zealand sire Phizam, produced a gritty performance when runner-up to Reggie in the Listed Caloundra Cup (2400m) at the Sunshine Coast last week.

"It was a good run last week but the wet track made it a slower-run race which suited him," Laming said.

"He's only a one-pacer."

Phaze Action is part-owned by Melbourne Racing Club committeeman Ian Macdonald and is in his second preparation with the Laming stable, having formerly been prepared by Brian Jenkins at Cranbourne.

The Lamings joined forces when regulations were changed at the start of the season to permit training partnerships.

Richard Laming, 27, runs the Victorian arm of the training operation and has more than 30 horses in work while his father oversees 15 horses at his Jacob Wells base on the Gold Coast.

The pair operated from stables in Cranbourne and used the course for training before developing their own property which boasts a 2000-metre grass track and a sand track as well as a swimming pool, a walker and a treadmill.

"It (dual partnership) is going good," Laming said.

Damian Browne, who rode Phaze Action for the first time in the Caloundra Cup, has been retained for the Queensland Cup.