The big wet has gone and with drying tracks, trainers have new optimism with a mammoth nine capacity races with gallopers from Sydney to Grafton for Manning Valley Race Club's stand-alone TAB meeting at Taree on Tuesday.

Local trainer Tony Ball unleashes two of his best sprinters resuming from a spell in the feature Johnson & Mongan Class 2 & Above Benchmark 58 Handicap over 1000m at Manning Valley Race Club's meeting at Taree on Monday.