A pay television subscription could prove the best investment ever by Victorian trainer Peter White if outsider Jungle Ruler causes an upset in Saturday's Group One Doomben 10,000.White, 63, who trains a team of 10 horses on the Mornington Peninsula, first considered sending Jungle Ruler to Brisbane after the five-year-old finished fifth to Light Fantastic in the Group Two Liston Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield last August.The Lion Hunter entire was beaten only two lengths on a slow track with champ

A pay television subscription could prove the best investment ever by Victorian trainer Peter White if outsider Jungle Ruler causes an upset in Saturday's Group One Doomben 10,000.

White, 63, who trains a team of 10 horses on the Mornington Peninsula, first considered sending Jungle Ruler to Brisbane after the five-year-old finished fifth to Light Fantastic in the Group Two Liston Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield last August.

The Lion Hunter entire was beaten only two lengths on a slow track with champion Weekend Hussler and Maldivian finishing in the Liston placings.

But it was while tuning into Foxtel's weather channel after Jungle Ruler finished last in the race won by Gold Salute at Flemington last Saturday that White was convinced he should make a rushed trip to Brisbane.

"I always reckon it rains in Queensland for their winter carnival and he's the sort of horse who can run big races in the wet," White said.

"I've never taken a horse to Queensland but he's a swimmer on wet tracks.

"The day he was beaten in the Liston on a slow track we thought he had run third and had beaten Maldivian who went on to win the Cox Plate.

"When I heard there was a bit of rain in Brisbane I looked up the weather channel on Foxtel which forecast rain every day this week so I quickly rang the float company and booked him in."

Apache Cat was the ruling $3.40 favourite in TAB Sportsbet's fixed odds market for the Doomben 10,000 while Jungle Ruler was an $81 outsider along with the Bart Cummings-trained Empires Choice.

To the surprise of most, the Doomben meeting looks likely to proceed following a break in the recent bad weather.

Stewards inspected the Doomben track twice on Thursday and rated it a heavy (9) but safe for racing despite almost 300 millimetres of rain since Tuesday.

Jungle Ruler is the most successful heavy-track performer in the 1350-metre feature with three wins and two placings from seven starts.

White recognises he could become a member of the true believers' club if Jungle Ruler is successful and he'd gladly accept jockey Mark Flaherty as a fellow member.

"Mark has won three times on him but he's generally regarded as just a country jockey down here," White said.

"But he's won a Group One for Mick Kent in Macau and is a fitness fanatic."

White began his career training in Canberra in 1978 before moving to Randwick and then Victoria.

"I wanted to study to become a veterinarian when I moved to Sydney," he said.

"I went to boarding school as a kid in Melbourne so I stayed here after I came from Sydney with a horse named Tulip Town."

White has trained Group winners in his career but is yet to win at the highest level.

He has great respect for fellow Victorian Apache Cat but is confident Jungle Ruler will be competitive on a rain-sodden track.

"I'm not suggesting we'll beat Apache Cat which has won twice on heavy tracks but if luck goes our way I'm hoping he'll be right in the finish," White said.