Hamilton has six runners at the Wingatui meeting.
Deceptive, who will contest the 2700m hurdle, looms as Hamilton's best chance of the day, in his return to jumping after finding good form on the flat.
Deceptive's last two starts have produced a second at Riccarton behind Confused, before finishing on well into fourth behind Stormy Rain at Wingatui on April 9.
The I Conquer 8yr-old reacquainted himself with the hurdles in a schooling session at Wingatui last week, which satisfied Hamilton.
The gelding had five starts over hurdles in 2011, picking up two placings.
''He had a bit of a run around last week. He'll be right,'' Hamilton said.
''He should be fit and ready and he'd be the best chance we've got, I'd say.''
Day Centre finds himself in the steeplechase due to his lack of speed being found out on the flat. The Yamanin Vital gelding had 27 flat starts for two placings, but is coming to the steeplechase game well after having one crack over the larger fences last season, along with two hurdle starts.
''He schooled good the other day - he's just a young steeplechaser, so it could be his go,'' he said.
The field attracted five starters, although Perfect Excuse's scratching brings the field down to four.
Hamilton joked Day Centre would be a ''place chance with four in it''.
''He jumps good. It'll be interesting to see how he goes.''
Hamilton has Down Here Up There and Keep The Quest looking to break out of maidens over 1400m, and he rates Down Here Up There as the better chance of the two, stepping back up to 1400m - a distance over which she ran fourth at Wingatui two starts ago. Ballyrina will get her jumping ticket soon, but Hamilton was heartened by her fifth at Wingatui last week as she heads into a rating 65 2200m assignment.
''She's been terrible and awful, but she went better the other day on a sticky track which is not her go,'' he said.
''She should be all right [on a dead track], if it's not too sticky.''
What A Find is another one of Hamilton's runners who will campaign over the jumps this season, but Hamilton hopes the draw of one will be the gelding's friend over a mile.
''He's been hanging and doing things wrong, so he can hang on the running rail all the way round, can't he?''
Alan Browne returns to jumps riding after three seasons off. Browne's last ride was in the 2010 Grand National Hurdles, in which he finished eighth on General Mac.
The track was rated a dead (4) yesterday.
