Talented galloper Morning Captain is proof that a horse's price tag has little bearing on its racetrack success.

A $3000 buy, Morning Captain is already a bargain having banked more than $438,000 with seven wins and 11 placings from 29 starts.

On Saturday at Doomben he will line up in the Listed Lough Neagh Stakes which carries a first prize money purse of $112,000.

A victory would lift Morning Captain's stakes past the $500,000 mark and deliver another overdue stakes win.

Morning Captain is ultra consistent but has had little luck in feature races.

He won the Listed Queensland Day Plate as a younger horse and has placed four times in 13 attempts at black type grade.

"He might never win a Stradbroke or any Group One race but he has been great for us," trainer Kelly Doughty said.

"He handles wet and dry and more importantly he tries every time he goes around.

"Every trainer would love 10 of him."

It was a last-minute decision for Doughty and her husband Gary, a former top jockey, to buy Morning Captain at the Magic Millions mid-year yearling sale in 2009.

"We were leaving the complex and noticed a nice type of yearling getting ready to enter the sale ring. He was by a virtually unknown sire in Danbird," she said.

"After a quick debate we decided to wait and the first bid was $2700. We went to $3000 and the rest is history."

The Doughtys then sold Morning Captain to Brisbane advertising man Vince Dickson for the purchase price.

A Listed win would also be further reward for Doughty who is one of the hardest working trainers in Queensland.

She tasted Melbourne spring carnival success this year with Black Cash and led in an impressive winner at Doomben on Wednesday in Little Brown Horse.

Morning Captain has 58kg in Saturday's Lough Neagh, a rise of a kilo on what he carried last start when a close second to Lucky Hussler in the George Moore Stakes (1200m).

However, Morning Captain does meet Lucky Hussler 1kg better at the weights.

Meanwhile, trainer Steve Tregea has stuck with apprentice Anthony Allen to partner his promising galloper Love Rocks in the Lough Neagh.

Allen has ridden Love Rocks to his past two wins in which the four-year-old has recorded very fast times.

"Anthony knows the horse and rides him well so why switch," Tregea said.