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Time Lord will have a change of rider in Saturday’s Grand Prix Stakes at Doomben with expatriate New Zealand jockey Damian Browne belatedly taking the rein

“He was meant to ride him the other day, but due to the handicap conditions as a three-year-old the horse was on the minimum and he couldn’t do the weight,” trainer Richard Collett said.

“Michael Cahill rode him and they share the same manager, but Damian was always our preferred rider.”

Cahill proved an able substitute at the Sunshine Coast where Time Lord accounted for a field of older horses over 1600m.

“It was a nice result and we were going to run him in the Rough Habit Plate, but he needed a little bit more time to settle in to his new environment at the Gold Coast,” Collett said.

“With the racing in New Zealand behind him, he didn’t need two staying races before the Derby and it didn’t concern us missing the Rough Habit.”

The son of Guillotine had finished third at Pukekohe Park in the Gr.2 Championship Stakes (2200m) before departing for Brisbane.

“He was fresh for the mile at the Sunshine Coast and he galloped well again yesterday, two weeks to the Derby is ideal for him,” Collett said.

The winner of two of his nine starts, Time Lord is currently rated a $21 chance for the Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2200m). He has drawn well in gate two.