Local trainer Tony Ball is running just one horse - Grand Horizon - at the Taree race meeting on Saturday and after booking in-form jockey Ben Looker to ride the mare he’s tipping a big run from her.

Local trainer Tony Ball is running just one horse - Grand Horizon - at the Taree race meeting on Saturday and after booking in-form jockey Ben Looker to ride the mare he’s tipping a big run from her.

The final leg of the National Apprentices Race Series (NARS) will be run at Doomben on Wednesday with the host State, Queensland, having no chance of defending its crown.

The former training partnership of Ryan Tyrell and Tom Button may have been dissolved last year but it still hopes to remain a formidable team as trainer and owner at Beaudesert on Thursday.

The racing industry is fondly remembering former jockey Mr Bill Camer, who passed away aged 92 on Saturday, as a remarkable rider who lived and breathed the sport.