A unique Bega Cup hat-trick is looming ominously for the powerful country training partnership of Barbara Joseph, and Paul & Matt Jones this Sunday.

Promising four-year-old Manderboss resumes racing at the feature Kurrajong Waratah meeting at Wagga on Saturday with a view to hopefully contesting some feature country cups.

He’s had a TAB Everest runner, a placegetter in The Kosciuszko and on Sunday at Nowra trainer Matt Dale is hoping to secure his first runner in a Newhaven Park Country Championships Final.

The memories of Mercurial Lad winning the final race of his career in last year’s Bega Cup will last forever as the Joseph-Jones stable attempt to capture the feature race again on Sunday.

It’s an invasion of the highest order – the Joseph/Jones racing team will be targeting next weekend’s Sapphire Coast Bega Cheese Bega Cup Carnival with a massive team of thoroughbreds.