The chance to contest a $1 million race restricted to country horses doesn’t come around often when you can count your horse numbers on a few fingers but trainer Mark Jones has those fingers crossed Life’s A Party can earn that shot.

You might say it was only a Nowra maiden but jockey Quayde Krogh has no doubt I’m A Steel has the potential to back up her impressive debut in the first of Saturday’s TAB Highways (1100m) at Rosehill.

Reigning Newhaven Park Country Championships winning trainer Brett Robb regards Gallant Star as his best chance of going back-to-back in the 2024 series.