In-form apprentice Peter Lui heads to South Australia on Wednesday to contest the first heat of the National Apprentice Race Series (NARS) at Murray Bridge.

Angels Beach is expected to hit the ground running first up at Sandown-Hillside on Wednesday in the Brown Sawdust and Shavings 3YO fillies Ratings 68 Handicap (1000m).

Late entry fees are always a big gamble but the connections of talented three-year-old Fire Thunbderbolt reckon the $55,000 they have paid to start the colt in Saturday's $1 million Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington will be money well spent.

Late entry fees are always a big gamble but the connections of talented three-year-old Fire Thunbderbolt reckon the $55,000 they have paid to start the colt in Saturday's $1 million Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington will be money well spent.

Late entry fees are always a big gamble but the connections of talented three-year-old Fire Thunbderbolt reckon the $55,000 they have paid to start the colt in Saturday's $1 million Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington will be money well spent.