Connections of now 10-year-old gelding Liffeybeau have called time on his racing career.

Trainer Imogen Miller mad mixed feelings when her stable newcomer Dunbrody Power edged out her more fancied stablemate Algernon to win the Winzenberg Quality Handicap over 1100 metres in Hobart on Sunday.

Algernon hasn’t been the easiest horse to train, just ask his trainer Imogen Miller.

Rising star And Beyond has been installed favourite to win the $125,000 Newmarket Handicap in Launceston on Wednesday night even though he has yet to match it with open class opposition.

Last season’s Newmarket Handicap winner Gee Gee Secondover is set to kick off his next campaign in Melbourne after an impressive trial win in Devonport on Tuesday.