Hawkesbury's leading trainer Brad Widdup is keen to set the record straight at his home track’s feature Metropolitan stand-alone meeting on Saturday.

The weather is going to be a significant factor in deciding who lines up in the Group 2 $500,000 Premiere Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday and who can show their on the right path to the TAB Everest.

We’re going to learn plenty about where things stand for next month’s TAB Everest when potentially six of the confirmed runners clash in Saturday’s Group 2 $500,000 The Shorts (1100m) at Royal Randwick.

It’s the first step on the pathway to the TAB Everest and Saturday’s Group 3 $160,000 Concorde Stakes (1000m) will tell us plenty about how star sprinter Nature Strip has returned for the spring.

The Kris Lees-trained Wandabaa chasing breakthrough black-type win in Civic Stakes.