Gratz Vella’s Chop The Ice went down by the slimmest of margins first up at Albury and looks a fantastic chance of going one better in this Friday’s TAB Federal (1080m).

Trainer Todd Smart isn’t prepared to wait another year to find out if promising galloper Gundy Guy is Country Championships material so he’s keen to snatch the last spot on offer at Goulburn on Sunday for next month’s final.

An in-depth look at the chances of every runner in the $150,000 Newhaven Park Country Championships Southern Wild Card (1400m) at Goulburn on Sunday.

The ‘one race at a time’ adage applies to racing like no other industry.