The chance to contest a $1 million race restricted to country horses doesn’t come around often when you can count your horse numbers on a few fingers but trainer Mark Jones has those fingers crossed Life’s A Party can earn that shot.

Astute three-decade trainer Mark Jones is adamant a recent Sydney Highway failure by his speedy mare Life’s a Party was a complete forgive going into a far more favourable Monday Bathurst TAB meeting.

For Mudgee’s Mark Jones, training something with seven successive second placings and two more minors suggests he has either the patience of a saint, or frustration levels off the Richter scale with Kora Magic into the TAB Highway at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday.