A year’s worth of experience training The Ritz has Michael Morrison confident he can earn his shot at the $3 million Big Dance via Friday’s $150,000 Moonee Beach Hotel Coffs Harbour Cup (1600m).

Champion jockey Hugh Bowman has guided Hosier to an important win in the Coffs Harbour Cup.

Michael Costa, in career-defining times, returns to Grafton’s Clarence River Jockey Club TAB meeting on Sunday, where his feature race aspirations burst off the launching pad last season.

Trainer Michael Costa is hopeful his recent run of luck can continue when Gold Coast sprinter The Ritz attempts a metropolitan breakthrough at Ipswich on Wednesday.