Brungle Creek is racing for a potential place in the Albury Gold Cup if he can perform up to expectations in the Romanos Hotel Benchmark 66 (2000m) at Wagga on Thursday.

Top regional trainer Mack Griffith, into another Newhaven Park Country Championships Final, might be heavily outnumbered by bigger stables but no better form at Friday’s Dubbo TAB meeting than with his lone runner Medinah ($5.50 on TAB).

Dubbo trainer Michael Mulholland will be hoping the Gilgandra Cup form can hold up when his talented galloper Athena’s Lad ($3.90) contests Sunday’s $36,000 Cowra Lamb Cowra Cup (1700m).

Trainer Matt Dale is confident a big weight will be no barrier for Kiptanui ($6 on TAB) as his consistent campaigner goes in pursuit of consecutive wins for the first time in his career at Kembla Grange on Saturday.

Bjorn Baker will send a small team from his Warwick Farm base to Orange on Tuesday in the hope of snaring some more success for the stable.