Full Peal will be aimed at Tasmania's premier Cups in February if he can snare a city win, with his first chance looming at Caulfield on Saturday.

Warrnambool trainer Symon Wilde said the six-year-old would be stepping up in class in the $100,000 Hayman Plate (1600m) - but should not be under-estimated.

The gelding is nearing his peak again after winning five times on end late last year before faltering after a briefer than usual rest.

"He won those five straight and we went to Sydney but we only really gave him about two-and-a-half weeks off," Wilde said.

"It probably wasn't long enough and he just didn't come up so we gave him a really long spell.

"We'll aim at the summer again because that's when he seems to hit his peak.

"He seems to be right back to his best. He's right up in class now but even his first-up run in that sprint race at Hamilton (when third on October 28) was really good."

Full Peal resumed at Hamilton before winning at Ararat last month, prompting Wilde to aim a little higher.

"It's a step up from his last start at Ararat but he won quite impressively," he said. "He's drawn a good gate (five) and he's not too badly in at the weights.

"He's pretty bomb-proof - he can roll forward, he can go back but from that gate he should give himself a really good run just in behind the speed.

"He's got a good turn of foot, if he's up there in the first half of the race he can really let go at the end," he said.

Wilde scratched the gelding from Moonee Valley three weeks ago due to a high white cell count but said he was simply being cautious.

"He was clinically fine but we are planning to race him all through the summer so we thought we'd just tread carefully.

"If it was a target race he probably still would have run but we just thought we'd err on the side of caution.

Wilde said Full Peal's best distance was 2000 metres and his ambition was to run the horse in the Hobart and Launceston Cups.

"Some of his owners have got connections with Tassie so it would be nice to be able to get him there but we'd have to make sure his form warranted it," Wilde said.