The trainers and rider Leah Hemi will attempt to win the 2400m listed feature for the third time in four years, this time with Riviera Rock.
The 5yr-old goes into the race after a last-start failure ended a brilliant run of consistent spring and summer form.
He jumped slowly in the Gore Cup before getting a long way off.
The Eade stable has turned the page on the run and hopes Riviera Rock can settle in a handier spot tomorrow.
"Things just didn’t go his way at all. It was a combination of things — the draw and other bits and pieces," Graham Eade said.
"We took the side winkers off him, just to try him. He is not a horse that can sit back where he was."
"He has got to be hunted up into a position and that will be the plan on Saturday."
Riviera Rock has signalled he is ready to bounce straight back to his best form in his work since his Gore Cup failure.
"He is going pretty well and we don’t think we can get him going any better," Eade said.
Riviera Rock has raced past 2200m only once and produced a tough win over 2500m at the New Zealand Cup Carnival.
The Eades have been patiently waiting for another chance to show off the Road To Rock gelding’s staying prowess.
They get that opportunity under excellent circumstances tomorrow, the 5yr-old to carry the competitive weight of 54kg.
"We have been waiting for this race, because we know he can run 2400m or 2500m.
"And he goes into the Dunedin Cup with a pretty good weight. He should be pretty competitive with 54kg."
The Eades have combined with Hemi to win the Dunedin Gold Cup with La Nouvelle Vague in 2017 and last year with Orepuki Lad.
The trainers jumped at the chance to book the Central Districts jockey again this year.
"We have had a good run with Leah and she seems to get on well with our horses," Eade said.
Riviera Rock is not the only horse to bring premier form into Saturday’s race.
Sitarist also featured during the New Zealand Cup carnival and has continued her strong form with the exception of when she found the Gore track too wet for her liking in the Tapanui Cup.
Diorissimo has been in the best form of her career during her spring and summer campaign, which included a fourth in the New Zealand Cup.
The only glitch in her form line came in her last start in the Wellington Cup, where she was unable to get into the race after settling well off the pace.
King Of The Dance also drops back from 3200m to 2400m after producing a creditable eighth in the Trentham feature.
Local hopes in the Dunedin Gold Cup will be largely carried by improving Wingatui mare Zadeem.
The Amber Hoffman-trained three-quarter blood sister to former star race mare Lizzie L’amour has a pedigree to suggest she will relish 2400m.
