Winning the Melbourne Cup can open up opportunities. Just ask Kerrin McEvoy.

In 2000, Brew's success was the catalyst to McEvoy joining Godolphin for a successful stint in Europe before returning home as its main rider.

Now McEvoy has parlayed last year's win on Almandin into his best season as jockey.

He chalked up his eighth group 1 for the term on Egg Tart in Saturday's Queensland Oaks and will hope to be closing in on double figures after three more group 1s at Doomben this weekend.

"It is good season when you win the Melbourne Cup, to tell you the truth it would be enough just to win that," McEvoy said. "But it opens doors and I have had been able to get good support and keep a good run going as a freelance rider.

"When you are getting good quality horses from the Chris Waller and Peter Snowden yards it give you plenty of chances. For the past couple of months that is what has been happening."

McEvoy has cracked the 100-win mark for the first time since 2008-09 and is riding with a confidence bred from winning.

He will ride for Waller in each of the group 1s on Queensland's biggest day at Doomben and believes Mackintosh could take the Stradbroke first-up from a spell.

"I rode him in a barrier trial the other day and felt strong," McEvoy said. "He has a good record first-up and is unbeaten at Doomben.

"I think coming into the race as a fresh horse could be an advantage because you just don't know how much those runs at Eagle Farm would have taken out of the other horses."

Mackintosh bled in a track gallop in the autumn after which the Waller stable set its sights on the Stradbroke with the four-year-old, which won the Theo Marks Quality to start his spring.

He went on to run third in the Epsom and an unlucky fifth in the Cantala Stakes showing he is up to the best miler in the country.

He is a $13 chance at Sportsbet in a market where the top half-dozen are coming off runs on the testing ground at Eagle Farm two weeks ago, including Kingsford Smith Cup winner Clear Innocent, which will carry topweight as favourite.

McEvoy will ride Tangled in the JJ Atkins, a failure at Eagle after winning the Champagne Classic and Wu Gok in the Queensland Derby.

"Tangled had the blinkers on for the first time and travelled all right until the 6000m and then didn't go anywhere in the ground," McEvoy said.

"The jury is still out on him a bit, if he can step up to a group 1 this early in his career, but his win at Doomben a couple of runs ago was very strong."

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