A cap-in-hand telephone call to trainer Kelso Wood has proved a career saver for in-form apprentice Kirk Matheson.

Matheson and Wood were in the winners' circle again on Saturday when Seeking More ($5.50) won the Asahi Handicap at Eagle Farm.

Seeking More was Matheson's seventh winner, and his sixth in the metropolitan area, in the past three weeks.

It was a different story last year when Matheson struggled to get rides in the city.

"Kirk rang me and asked me to take him on as an apprentice. He had run off the rails a bit but I agreed to have him as long as he worked hard," Wood said.

"A lot of his trouble is he is very quiet and I got him a good manager. He is working hard."

Matheson said he had been with Wood for about three months and things had been going well.

"Mr Wood has been good to me and I am glad when I can repay him with a winner," he said.

Wood said Seeking More had been unlucky at his last start and would now be set on the road to feature races in the winter.

"He is pretty smart. I was surprised he wasn't favourite and tipped everywhere for this," said Wood.

Meanwhile, the famous Queensland racing name of Pratt was back in the spotlight when Palmera Lad ($12) stormed home to beat Secret Harmony ($5) by 3-1/2 lengths in the Austcover Handicap (1600m).

Palmera Lad is trained by Roslyn Pratt who is the married to Brad Pratt, the son of former Brisbane premier trainer Alby Pratt and nephew of long-time ABC racecaller Larry Pratt.

Roslyn, a former jockey in Adelaide under her maiden name of Dodd, has only a small team at Eagle Farm but she now has a genuine winter carnival horse on her hands.

"The Pratt name is famous in Queensland and Palmera Lad races in a variation on Alby's colours," she said.

"A lot of people thought his last-start third at big odds when the track was wet was a fluke but he is better in the dry."