Wagga trainer Chris Heywood is not expecting to have to make a decision on a Championships start with lightly-raced three-year-old Blitzar.
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The Deep Field gelding is the third emergency for Saturday's $150,000 SDRA Country Championships Qualifier (1400m) at Albury.
There has already been two scratchings in the race, putting Blitzar next in line.
Blitzar, a last-start winner at Wagga, is also engaged in the $30,000 Baxters Concrete Class Two Handicap (1175m) at Albury.
Heywood is not expecting to have to make a decision between the two races.
"I'm looking forward to going down and going around in the class two," Heywood said.
"If anything changes, then I'll have to make a decision but at this stage he's going around in the class two."
Blitzar is drawn barrier 11 in the Qualifier and TAB has him at $14, narrowly behind Real Key ($13.00) as the best hope of the Wagga-trained horses in the race.
Blitzar has won two of his five starts. He was an impressive winner at Wagga last Thursday, prompting Heywood to throw in a nomination for the Championships.
Gun apprentice Tyler Schiller is down to ride Blitzar again in the Class Two Handicap, but there is no jockey booked for the Championships.
The Trevor Sutherland-trained Let's Get Animal is the fourth emergency for the Qualifier but is also unlikely to gain a start.
He is also in earlier in the day with Schiller to ride.
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