It’s a long way from Mareeba on North Queensland’s Atherton Tablelands to Doomben but it’s a trip trainer Alex Malliff hopes will be successful with Love On Sunday.

Rockhampton hobby trainer Mark Cochrane is hopeful top weight Bering Sea can book a Central and North Queensland Country Cups campaign at Mackay on Tuesday.

Townsville trainer Chris Attard will return to his former hometown hoping to snare his biggest pay cheque with Baby Guinness in the $125,000 Capricornia Yearling Sales QTIS Two-Year-Old Plate at Rockhampton on Saturday.

Trainer Chris Attard is hopeful a significant weight advantage will go a long way to giving him his first Northern Cups victory with Bering Sea in the Cairns Cup at Cannon Park on Saturday.

Emerging Rockhampton trainer Chris Attard is hopeful his rise through the training ranks in central Queensland can gather further momentum before relocating to Townsville in the state’s north.