Trainer Paul Murray isn’t too concerned whether Bega Cup winner Winning Point finds herself in the Big Dance or the Little Dance in the spring because he knows he has something to aim at.

Trainer Gary Portelli isn’t surprised Flying Trapeze has made it to stakes level as a two-year-old but he’ll admit it’s happened a bit later than he forecast.

Rain on race day put a dampener on Nathan Doyle’s confidence with talented sprinter Kipsbay the last time he made the trip to Rosehill but the trainer says conditions appear much more in his favour on Saturday.

To some apprentices it’s a milestone that means as much as, if not more than, a premiership so you can understand why Reece Jones is excited to go to Rosehill on Saturday on the verge of outriding his metropolitan claim.

Trainer Michael Freedman plans to keep consistent three-year-old Insurrection in his comfort zone through his winter campaign and he hopes it can start in positive fashion at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.