Trainer Gerald Ryan has confirmed a Brisbane Cup start for Ready To Lift who will travel north later this week.The mare won Saturday's W J McKell Cup at Rosehill to keep her perfect 2400 metre record intact and earn a tilt at the Brisbane Cup over the same distance."She has come through Saturday's race very well so at this stage she is on the float on Wednesday," Ryan said."It is going to be wet up there but her record says it won't worry her and they all have to get through it."I just wish it w

Trainer Gerald Ryan has confirmed a Brisbane Cup start for Ready To Lift who will travel north later this week.

The mare won Saturday's W J McKell Cup at Rosehill to keep her perfect 2400 metre record intact and earn a tilt at the Brisbane Cup over the same distance.

"She has come through Saturday's race very well so at this stage she is on the float on Wednesday," Ryan said.

"It is going to be wet up there but her record says it won't worry her and they all have to get through it.

"I just wish it was still a Group One over 3200 metres."

Glyn Schofield, who partnered Ready To Lift to her Christmas Cup-Summer Cup double as well as the McKell victory, will take the ride again.

He has also been booked for the Anthony Cummings-trained Solo Flyer in the $1 million Stradbroke Handicap.

Although Ready To Lift's sire More Than Ready has produced the past two Golden Slipper winners in Sebring and Phelan Ready, Ryan said he always thought the mare would be a stayer.

"She was never a two-year-old and although she has a win over 1200 metres, it came as a surprise to me," he said.

"It was the first meeting back after EI (equine influenza) and she may have been a bit fitter than some.

"People forget More Than Ready also sired a Victoria Derby winner in Benicio."

New Zealand warhorse Sir Slick was also among the Brisbane Cup nominations and if he lines up it will be for the sixth consecutive Saturday.

He ran third in the first three - the Hollindale Stakes, Chairman's Handicap and Doomben Cup - and was eighth in the Doomben 10,000 and sixth in the P J O'Shea Stakes won by Scenic Shot.