Danielle Seib - a TAB Highway specialist - is value as adverse circumstances suggest three favoured placegetters from a recent Newcastle episode, Tanglewood ($3.90 favourite on TAB), Ramones ($10) and Zanardee’s Lane ($14) are little hope of staging an action replay at Royal Randwick on Saturday.

Eight of French Endeavour’s 12 starts have been in stakes company and she drops back to benchmark grade at Randwick.

Danny Beasley is making the interstate trek to Brisbane for a special ride.

Big Day Out ($13 on TAB) - which ran fourth in last year’s edition of the Albury Sprint Classic and lined up in last week’s Wagga Town Plate – could lead the charge of trainer Craig Weeding on Friday.

Visiting New Zealand jockey Michael McNab has landed a feature race win on the tricky Mornington track.