Triple Strip, runner-up in this year's Devonport Cup, will begin a campaign that Blacker hopes will take her to Melbourne for two runs before the end of the season.

The trainer has started five horses in Victoria since Tasmanian racing was shut down on April 2 and broke through for a win with Generalmaintenance at Bendigo on Saturday.

"It keeps us ticking over and was good for morale," he said.

"The staff at home have all been working hard but it's easy to go a bit stale when you're not going to the races.

"Generalmaintenance has been good at all three runs in Victoria.

"He was held up until the 50m when unplaced at Donald then got flushed out a bit early when an unlucky second at Ballarat.

"He was back to his right grade on the weekend and got the job done so we'll leave him over there for another run on the synthetic at Pakenham next week."

Blacker considered Triple Strip 'a bit unlucky' not to win this year's Devonport Cup so he is keen to give her another chance in that $100,000 race in January.

However his immediate focus is on Melbourne.

"After she trials on Tuesday we'll decide whether to run her first-up in a 1200m open handicap in Hobart on April 21 or go straight to Melbourne," the trainer said.

"My preference is to give her a run here then go to a 1400m benchmark 90 for fillies and mares at Flemington 3-1/2 weeks later.

"Three weeks after that there's a 1600m race at Flemington and that would do her for this prep.

"She would be back home early August and have two or three weeks in the paddock before we target the Devonport Cup again."

Tuesday's 12 Spreyton trials scheduled to start at 10am will be the first competitive action seen on the synthetic track for almost five months.

They follow 14 trials at Mowbray last Wednesday and another 11 in Hobart on Friday as racing gears up to return from a 10-week layoff on June 14.