While Kris Lees and team Messara-Gavranich have the form and numbers to dominate Sunday’s Muswellbrook ANZAC TAB meeting, Tony Ball is respected for his knack of long-priced winners travelling from his Taree stables.

Lyle Chandler’s Rapbidash has paid the penalty for maximum consistency and a massive run in the Newhaven Park Country Championships Final but still represents value as the TAB Highway series resumes at Royal Randwick on Saturday.

A potentially lucrative spring awaits Grebeni later this year so it’s no surprise that co-trainer Sterling Alexiou says his autumn campaign will be not much bigger than a cameo.

Kris Lees will have a third shot at winning regional Queensland’s richest race at Rockhampton on Sunday week.

Few things give Aaron Bullock more pleasure than to look over on the drive home from a country race meeting and see a Country Cup or Championships trophy sitting on the passenger’s seat.

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Good sprinters take the Hall Mark Stakes run at Randwick on Saturday.

Selections based on a good track.

Fresh from a third placing in last Saturday’s Polytrack Provincial-Midway Championhips Final at Randwick with Shadows Of Love, trainer Kim Waugh will send two runners to Scone on Tuesday in the hope of bouncing back to winning form.

Track Soft 5 and rail True:

(Selections based on a soft track).

Aaron Bullock, trailing leader Tyler Schiller by three wins in the NSW Jockeys' Premiership, has an outstanding book of rides at Newcastle Jockey Club's mammoth nine-race meeting on Saturday.

The Rail is in the true position and the track will likely race in the slow range.  A good meaty program for punters to get their teeth into.

Selections based on a heavy track