Track likely improving to Good 4 and rail True:

Trainer Lyle Chandler has his eye firmly on next month’s Scone Cup with his stable star Banju so he’d like to lay a strong foundation with a good fresh performance in the $200,000 Tamworth City Toyota Tamworth Cup (1400m) on Friday.

Star English jockey, Ashley Morgan, 31, has a full book of promising rides to continue his dazzling form at Manning Valley Race Club's eight-race TAB meeting at Taree on Friday.