Trainer Lawrie Mayfield-Smith’s feet are firmly planted on the ground and he won’t go home sulking if his smart colt Zouna’s unbeaten record ends at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

Trainer Lawrie Mayfield-Smith’s feet are firmly planted on the ground and he won’t go home sulking if his smart colt Zouna’s unbeaten record ends at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

It will be a long-time homecoming for well-travelled horseman Stephen Sutherland when he takes a galloper to Toowoomba’s Clifford Park on Saturday evening.

Deagon’s Ben Lang experienced all the highs and lows of being a thoroughbred horse trainer in the first year or so of holding a licence.

There won’t be a dry eye at Eagle Farm on Wednesday if promising five-year-old Kipling’s Journey maintains his unbeaten record this campaign.