Local trainer Tony Ball is running just one horse - Grand Horizon - at the Taree race meeting on Saturday and after booking in-form jockey Ben Looker to ride the mare he’s tipping a big run from her.

Local trainer Tony Ball is running just one horse - Grand Horizon - at the Taree race meeting on Saturday and after booking in-form jockey Ben Looker to ride the mare he’s tipping a big run from her.

Gosford trainer Jake Hull has plenty of belief in Sixfootone’s ability to stand tall again when the former South Australian horse races at his new favourite track Taree on Friday.

Taree’s Manning Valley Race Club has stepped up to the plate and will host this year’s $200,000 Port Macquarie Cup on Friday.

Taree racing doyen Tony Ball rarely misses targeting home meetings and he and prolific northern premiership jockey Ben Looker carry the momentum of multiple recent Grafton Carnival success into Tuesday’s Taree TAB program.