Peter and Paul Snowden have stacked the bases with three runners in the Dane Ripper Stakes.

Franz Josef will head north for a winter carnival target after giving Kerrin McEvoy his first Saturday winner back from injury.

A Queensland carnival bid isn’t off the table, but a spring campaign appears more likely for promising youngster Emirate.

It hasn’t been the smoothest of build ups for unbeaten three-year-old Know Thyself ahead of his Canterbury return on Wednesday but co-trainer Paul Messara hopes the gelding can show he’s on target for a potential winter stakes tilt.

Danielle Seib - a TAB Highway specialist - is value as adverse circumstances suggest three favoured placegetters from a recent Newcastle episode, Tanglewood ($3.90 favourite on TAB), Ramones ($10) and Zanardee’s Lane ($14) are little hope of staging an action replay at Royal Randwick on Saturday.