Leading Albury trainer Brett Cavanough has informed Racing NSW stewards of an eye infection to Loved Up just days out from her biggest career start.

Loved Up was an impressive winner of the $100,000 Wagga heat on March 15 and then backed it up with a dashing victory in the Albury Guineas last Friday.

Cavanough is confident Loved Up will recover in time but has notified Wagga trainer Chris Heywood to be ready with High Opinion, in the case of his filly being ruled out.

“There is a little bit of an issue with her eye,” Cavanough said.

“I’m pretty confident we’ll get that right,

“It’s only Tuesday so we’ve got time but you never know, things can go sideways.”

Loved Up got dirt in her eye during the Albury Guineas win.

She has since rubbed her eye to the point it has become infected.

Cavanough said a vet will make a decision on Loved Up, ideally by Friday.

Cavanough informed Heywood of the situation in a bid to ensure Southern District is strongly represented at Randwick on Saturday.

“I’m pretty confident we’ll get there at this stage but I didn’t want to muck Chris around,” he said.

“Chris probably needs to know at the latest, by Friday, so I wanted to think of my area and let him know.

“If we can’t be there, then I want someone else to be and I’d like to think if we come out, another one from here would go in.”

Cavanough said Loved Up had pulled up ‘super’, apart from the eye injury.

He is confident the filly is a live chance in Saturday’s final.

Cavanough has stuck to his word of keeping Goulburn-based bush jockey Richard Bensley on Loved Up, despite some of his rivals opting for the likes of world class riders Joao Moreira, Zac Purton, Damien Oliver, James McDonald and Hugh Bowman.

The likes of Craig Williams and Dwayne Dunn called for the ride.

Southern District’s second representative in the Final is the Scott Spackman-trained mare Yet Tobe Convinced.

Meantime, Gundagai-Adelong Racing Club has received 17 nominations for their $30,000 Cup (1800m) on Monday.

Among the Cup nominations are Ring Da Belle, Ward, Landlocked, Price Of Glory, Sand Dune and Heysen.

Gundagai will hold a seven race TAB card with the winner of the feature race exempt of the ballot in the Wagga Gold Cup on May 1.

It is a Ladies Day race meeting with a ladies luncheon and fashions on the field.

There will also be plenty of children’s entertainment, including a jumping castle.

The Gundagai fields will be released on Wednesday.

Cootamundra and Tocumwal are the other Southern District race meetings on the Easter weekend.