Kris Lees is keen to take Tavi Time into The Championships on fresh legs.

Last year’s Ingham runner-up Lion’s Roar has been backed to go one better.

Flashy grey Spangler has impressed jockey Dylan Gibbons with the way he’s climbed the ladder in the past 12 months and is hoping the gelding can step up again in Saturday’s $1 million Illawarra Mercury Gong (1600m) at Kembla Grange.

It’s fair to say the spring hasn’t worked out the way the Chris Waller stable had hoped for talented four-year-old Osipenko so they’re chasing a consolation in Saturday’s $1 million Illawarra Mercury Gong (1600m) at Kembla Grange.

A hands on approach to training has always suited Sara Ryan since she took on the daunting job of preparing horses for Domeland and that’s the way she wants it to stay after notching her biggest win with Attractable in the $3 million Big Dance (1600m) at Randwick.