A wet Gold Coast track should help Mr O'Ceirin give jockey Glen Boss a happy homecoming in the Hollindale Stakes.

Boss has come a long way since he was the Gold Coast's leading apprentice 25 years ago.

The multiple Group One and three-time Melbourne Cup winner, who was apprenticed to Kaye Tinsley in the late 1980s, has won most of the Coast's feature races including three Prime Minister's Cups and the 2001 Hollindale Cup on Shogun Lodge.

The track seems certain to be at least slow after a storm hit the Gold Coast on Friday dumping more rain on top of the 32mm it had already received.

Melbourne trainer Ciaron Maher, who is making his first visit to Queensland on Saturday, believes the conditions will favour Mr O'Ceirin.

The gelding has the best wet track form in the race with seven starts on slow or heavy tracks for four wins.

"Mr O'Ceirin loves the sting out of the tracks and some of the others don't handle wet tracks," Maher said.

"There doesn't seem to be much early pace and hopefully Mr O'Ceirin can get across from his wide alley."

"He has a high cruising speed and in a couple of 1700-metre races during the spring he has been up there in fifth when the leaders were going very hard. If he has to lead it won't be a worry."

However, Maher believes the real advantage is having Boss aboard Mr O'Ceirin who has drawn the outside alley.

"Glen knows this horse very well and Mr O'Ceirin goes best for him," he said.

Boss and Mr O'Ceirin combined to win the Naturalism Stakes at Caulfield last spring.

Mr O'Ceirin, who was unplaced in the Victoria Hcp (1400m) on April 19, has an excellent second-up record winning three and being placed twice in six attempts.

"The Naturalism win was second-up and he does go well with one run under his belt," Maher said.

If Mr O'Ceirin races well he will press on to the Eagle Farm Cup (2200m) on May 31 and the Brisbane Cup (2400m) on June 8.

New Zealand trainer Shaune Ritchie believes his top stayer Military Move will handle a slow Hollindale track but doesn't want it too wet.

"We don't think it is a stellar Hollindale but we just hope he runs a nice race and then it might be on to the Eagle Farm Stakes at weight-for-age," Ritchie said.

Meanwhile, veteran stayer Precedence will be headed to the Brisbane Cup when he gives the Bart and James Cummings partnership its first Queensland starter in the Hollindale.

Bart Cummings is no stranger to Queensland having won many major races including the Prime Minister's Cup with Ngawyni but he has never taken out a Hollindale.