Luke Pepper is confident Opal Ridge can bounce back in Saturday’s The Hunter at Newcastle.

While the main focus for Luke Pepper is on far loftier occasions with his mighty mare Opal Ridge, it’s business as usual with some emerging prospects at his home track Scone TAB meeting on Friday.

Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott who are enjoying a great start to the current season with 35 winners Australia wide in less than two months, will send a pair of promising three-year-olds to Newcastle on Tuesday.

Serendipitous is probably the most appropriate word to describe how Goulburn gallopers Mogo Magic and Front Page have found their way into this year's The Kosciuszko line up.

For Scone’s Luke Pepper, excitement is mounting for far bigger occasions but for now it’s business as usual for Monday’s home track TAB meeting.