A firm track rather than a big weight is the major stumbling block for class galloper Cape Kidnappers as he chases a hat-trick of wins at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

Cape Kidnappers confirmed his rating as Brisbane’s short-course king with wins in the Listed Chief de Beers Stakes and Listed Lightning Handicap at his past two starts.

The gelding has now won nine of his 13 starts and has finished second three times.

Cape Kidnappers has paid the price for his consistency and has gone up 1.5kg to 58kg in Saturday’s Group Three WJ Healy Stakes (1200m).

Trainer Kelly Schweida said he wasn’t complaining about Cape Kidnappers’s weight.

“He has earned it and he has gone up in the ratings while a few others have come down. But he has won his past two starts at Listed company so you can’t complain,” Schweida said.

Schweida said while the Healy distance wouldn’t worry Cape Kidnappers, the condition of Eagle Farm might find him out.

“I am worried about the track,” he said.

“We just haven’t had any rain and it could be rock-hard again.”

Schweida said he couldn’t blame officials for not watering the track.

“They keep predicting rain and none comes. So if you water it and it actually does rain everyone complains.”

Schweida said he would be walk the track on Friday and if it was too firm he would scratch Cape Kidnappers.