Reigning Country Championships Southern Districts winner Bianco Vilano will be saved for 24 hours with only Sparring to represent trainer Ron Stubbs in the Riverina Hotel Wagga Scamper (1000m) on Friday.

Andrew Bourke’s Champions League is a horse in form and will aim to achieve back-to-back TAB Federal wins when he contests Friday’s contest over 1300m.

For Mitch Beer’s speedster Hardware Lane ($6.50 on TAB), the early booking of champion James McDonald and their mateship is only part of the appeal into a TAB Highway, $100,000 Class 2, 1100m flyer on a spectacular day at the annual stand-alone Hawkesbury meeting on Saturday.

In-form galloper Demanding Mo will need to rise to another level as he steps up in the weights for the SDRA Championship Preview (1400m) at Albury on Thursday.

For Riverina training great Ron Stubbs and his newly apprenticed daughter and trackwork rider Abby, circumstances have conspired cruelly to deny them a marvellous day together at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday.