Rod Douglas has one eye on the Brisbane weather forecast as he plots his next move with well-travelled stayer Larry's Never Late ahead of Saturday's Tattersall's Cup at Eagle Farm.Mindful of the four-year-old's love of soft tracks, the trainer is keen to use forecast showers to his advantage this week as he seeks to claim a deserved win in Brisbane after narrow defeats in the Premier's Cup two runs ago and the Queensland Derby last year."If the track has give in it he'll go to the Tatt's Cup and

Rod Douglas has one eye on the Brisbane weather forecast as he plots his next move with well-travelled stayer Larry's Never Late ahead of Saturday's Tattersall's Cup at Eagle Farm.

Mindful of the four-year-old's love of soft tracks, the trainer is keen to use forecast showers to his advantage this week as he seeks to claim a deserved win in Brisbane after narrow defeats in the Premier's Cup two runs ago and the Queensland Derby last year.

"If the track has give in it he'll go to the Tatt's Cup and it should because they are forecasting showers, otherwise we'll wait a week and hope for rain at Caloundra," Douglas said.

"As usual he hasn't had a lot of luck with awkward gates at his last few runs but he if can get a sucky barrier and some give in the track he'll be very hard to beat.

"We'll see how he pulls up after that and I might take a look at the Queensland Cup in a fortnight's time over two miles, but that's pie in the sky at this stage."

While Saturday's 2200m Group Three race is foremost in Douglas' mind, it is a return visit to Tasmania for the Hobart and Launceston Cups early next year that is the long range goal for Larry's Never Late.

Larry's Never Late snared the 2009 Launceston Cup after a luckless fourth in the Hobart equivalent.

Douglas believes the horse is better placed on the Apple Isle over summer rather than scrounging for scraps during the Melbourne spring carnival.

"Larry is probably a couple of rungs below the Caulfield Cup standard and those other minor staying races are very hard to win," he said.

"I don't think that the Brisbane staying form measures up during the spring and I just think that Tassie is the right option for him.

"He'll be well weighted in races worth three and four hundred thousand (dollars) and they're not that strong down there, you've got to be realistic."

Joining Larry's Never Late among the nominations for the Tattersall's Cup is Victorian warhorse Baughurst, who will line up for a sixth straight week if he takes his place in the final field for Bill and Symon Wilde.

The taxing Brisbane campaigns of Sir Time Keeper and Sir Slick set by New Zealander Graeme Nicholson have been widely criticised, but Baughurst has matched that duo's resilience over the past five weeks without drawing the spotlight.

Sir Time Keeper could also run for a sixth straight week after he was nominated for the Listed Centenary Classic Mile at Eagle Farm.