Wangaratta trainer Dan McCarthy is hoping a risky $15,000 investment on an injured horse will hit the jackpot in Friday’s $180,000 Albury Gold Cup.

Racing and Sports have scanned the stewards’ reports to find the key information punters need to know from Australian racing on Wednesday August 3.

A final field of just seven runners has accepted for the Group 2 Mark Moran Missile Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday.

Racing and Sports finds the best-backed runners in early betting on Wednesday’s meeting at Warwick Farm.

All eyes were on the big names at the Randwick trials on Friday but there were a host of eye-catching performances from horses set to make their mark in coming weeks.