It’s a decent trip from Ballina to Sydney so trainer Ethan Ensby doesn’t travel south without good reason and he’s found one and that’s to discover where unbeaten three-year-old Maximum Vortex stands.

Wily, widely travelled trainer Stephen Jones has been training long enough to appreciate when everything seems in his favour with promising Sussu, a recent TAB Highway scratching, primed again for Saturday’s Rosehill Gardens episode.