Those who sponsored the race and attended a trackside reunion at Cowra on Saturday were in high spirits when their former classmate Mathew Cahill won the St Raphael’s Class Of 83 Handicap on Hez Golden.

Tuesday’s TAB Federal Road to the Chest (1300m) has attracted a quality field of country sprinters who will look to automatically qualify for the $200,000 Canberra Community Chest to be run on Saturday, 25 November.

There will be no shortage of Albury Gold Cup carnival contenders on display with several prospective candidates to contest the prelude of the City Handicap on Sunday.

In-form galloper Demanding Mo will need to rise to another level as he steps up in the weights for the SDRA Championship Preview (1400m) at Albury on Thursday.

Coinciding with the Cowra Cup meeting on Sunday is a historic occasion, the 25th anniversary of the only triple dead-heat for first-ever recorded on a racetrack in NSW.