Co-trainer Rex Lipp won’t have a runner in two of the three Stakes races at Ipswich on Saturday but he’s still hopeful of claiming some belated winter carnival spoils with Tycoon Evie in the $150,000 Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic.

Promising stayer Balmaurice will make a low-key return to racing at Doomben on Wednesday ahead of a possible Queensland Derby assault.