Scone trainer Stephen Jones has snared his fair share of winners at Taree in the past and he likes his chances of doing well again with the four-horse team he is taking to Sunday’s Christmas Eve meeting at the Manning Valley Race Club track.

After disappointments resulting in gear and tactics changes, Don’tcha Think is hinting lofty expectations at massive value into a strong TAB Highway at Royal Randwick on Saturday.

If the judgement of wily veteran Stephen Jones and comeback jockey Kody Nestor is as acute as ever, Don’tcha Think an impeccably bred three-year-old, is the safest bet at Friday’s Tamworth TAB meeting.

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.

When you call a horse The Mitchell Snail it’d be easy to think expectations aren’t that high or at least it’s an ironic name.