Scone trainer Rodney Northam can see similarities between his major Newhaven Park Hunter & North West Country Championships hopeful Bootscooter and his 2021 winner Spiranac and he can only hope she’s just as smart.

Trainer Rod Northam is banking on Spiranac’s third placing in last year’s Kosciuszko being enough to remind prospective slot holders of her ability as she won't have raced prior to Friday’s slot winner draw.

'In the Zone' Reece Jones might have relocated from Scone to Sydney indentured to John O’Shea, but he’s more than qualified to assess sprinters from his former home track who have an overwhelming presence in Saturday’s Rosehill Gardens TAB Highway where the prerequisite again is heavy track form.

Brilliant apprentices Reece Jones and Dylan Gibbons, who fought out the NSW premiership last season, are the jockeys to follow with compelling form and numbers for their heavyweight regional bosses throughout Scone’s TAB meeting on Friday.

The omens are as compelling as the form lines for Rod Northam’s connections with Tango Stepz ($51 on TAB), his TAB Highway stablemate to his The Kosciuszko contender Spiranac ($9) on a fabulous The TAB Everest occasion at Royal Randwick on Saturday.