Tips and race by race preview by Nick Berney for Thursday's Hawkesbury meeting. Selections based on a soft/good track. Monitor for bias/pattern.

Hawkesbury trainer Steve O’Halloran fielded a call last year from a Queensland owner he had never met, asking him to train an unraced youngster.

In-form Hawkesbury trainer Brad Widdup has the favourite, Ausbred Flirt, in the $150,000 Polytrack Provincial-Midway Championship Qualifier over 1400 metres at Kembla Grange on Saturday, but track conditions will govern whether the mare runs.

It's no longer a rumour!

Chris Scholtz reviews Sydney barrier trials at Randwick on March 7 and Hawkesbury on March 11.