Having emerged from a dramatic Wyong Cup experience unscathed, Hosier is looking to bounce back at Newcastle.

Retiring champion Damien Oliver and fellow Melbourne ace Ben Melham will be in Kris Lees’s corner in Friday’s $300,000 Newcastle Gold Cup (2300m).

In a coup for Newcastle Jockey Club and Newcastle’s premier trainer Kris Lees, Australia’s most successful jockey Damian Oliver and another of racings best Ben Melham will ride at Friday's Sharp Office Newcastle Gold Cup meeting.

Kris Lees cannot split his three contenders in The Coast at Gosford.

Tulloch Lodge hopes the Newcastle Stakes can be a Doncaster Mile launch pad for Cross Talk.