Trainer Glen Milligan likes the chances of his pair Lion Class and Tayla’s One in their Country Championships audition at Sunday’s Taree race meeting and is working hard on helping them shake their worst habits with an eye on on the main goal down the track.

Jockey Jon Grisedale says there’s only one way to ride lightly raced three-year-old Powder Man and he won’t be changing anything when he aims for back-to-back Grafton wins on Monday.

What are the chances that a USA import, discarded by Team Hawkes and the Waller stable as a perennial maiden, finally presenting at Royal Randwick on Saturday as a dual winner in a TAB Highway support to a compelling Group raceday?

Keen form student and former long-term Godolphin employee Tony Ball, invariably offers value and he reckons the wetter the better as long as they race at Monday’s Kempsey TAB meeting where it’s a Heavy 10 at present with possible rain forecast on Sunday.

Kempsey trainer Rocky Simonetta is relying on his second option, Casino and Wauchope Cups winner Prima Stella, to win the $34,000 Hopkins Livermore Cup (1412m) at Taree on Friday while last year's victor, his Mister McIlroy, recovers from a bad injury.