Hardware Lane was a runaway Albury winner by more than six lengths earlier this month at just his third start.

The promising three-year-old will now contest the $130,000 3YO C&G Handicap (1200m) at the Valley.

"I galloped him a week ago and they just don't work any better than that.

"He's a ripper. I've always really liked him.

"You've got to go down and see where they stack up and unfortunately there's no weak midweek three-year-old races at this time of year, there's nowhere to hide."

Teo Nugent will ride Hardware Lane from barrier one.

Branders Rule will head to the $50,000 Benchmark 70 (1206m) at the Benalla Cup meeting on Friday.

Beer is leaning towards Monday's Lily Pilly Cup at Leeton over The Panorama at Bathurst for last-start Wagga winner Mnementh.

Meantime, the Beer stable retired Logan River after his fifth placing at Wagga last Saturday. The Snitzel gelding won six races and over $100,000 for Beer and connections.

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THE Kosciuszko plans of Corowa sprinter Front Page will be made clear when he goes around at Moonee Valley on Friday night.

Front Page will contest the $130,000 Benchmark 84 Handicap (1200m) on Moir Stakes night.

Lewis German's claim helps Front Page get in with 59 kilograms, where he will start from barrier seven.

Trainer Geoff Duryea will use the run to decide whether he pushes on to the $1.3 million Kosciuszko at Randwick on October 16.

Friday will be an interesting day for the William Farrer Hotel's Super Punters Club. Not only will Front Page go around at Moonee Valley, but their second representative, Nadaraja, will go around at Scone in the Class Two Plate (1100m).

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ALBURY trainer Ron Stubbs believes promising galloper Tap 'N' Run deserves his shot at a Highway Handicap on Saturday.

Tap 'N' Run will contest the $100,000 TAB Highway Class Two Handicap (1500m) at Rosehill, where Jason Collett will take the ride from barrier 13.

"I think with the Highways, really, you only get one shot. It's a Class Two, so if he wins another one he's ineligible," Stubbs said.

"I'd probably be happier if it was 1400, but like I said, you get one opportunity so we're going to take it."

Tap 'N' Run has won two of his seven starts and has finished in the minor placings on four other occasions.

Last start, he ran third in a provincial Benchmark 64 Handicap (1200m) at Goulburn. Stubbs believe that form warrants a crack at a Highway.

"Kurt Goldman had the Ian Reid Sprint winner (Ruthless Agent) in the race. There was seven last-start winners in the race," he said.

"I think he stepped up there and I'd rate that every bit the class of a Highway.

"He's going to need to be able to run the distance and you need a lot of luck but we're going there with an open mind. We hold him in high regard but he's still got to keep stepping up."

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ALBURY trainer Donna Scott has set her sights on a city win with recent stable addition Takissacod.

The five-year-old had her first start since joining her stable from Norm Loy last Friday when winning the $35,000 TAB Federal (1200m) at Queanbeyan.

Carrying 61kg, Takissacod was given a gun run by Nick Heywood and found plenty to score in a busy finish.

Scott said the goal will to now try and secure a city win with the well-performed mare.

"The owners would like to get a city win with her," Scott said.

"I'm going to try and get her right to take her to town and she's got to go there now with her high rating. But she's related to Rocket Tiger so down the line, she's already got a good record, but if she could get a city win, it just makes it so much better.

"I'll try and look at some of those fillies and mares races."

Scott said the COVID-19 restrictions in will make a metropolitan trip difficult, but she will push on towards what will most likely be a midweek start in Sydney next.

Meantime, Oamanikka may also head to a midweek city start. The talented sprinter was set to resume at Benalla on Friday but Scott is considering scratching after drawing the outside gate.

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WAGGA gallopers Blitzar and Another One did their Kosciuszko chances no harm with strong trials at Murrumbidgee Turf Club on Saturday.

Both Chris Heywood and Gary Colvin have held discussions with slot holders, only to miss out. Two spots in the $1.3 million sprint remain available.

Blitzar, who was scratched from the Highway at Randwick on the same day, won the trial by over three lengths from Another One, who worked to the line nicely.

Blitzar clocked 58.75 seconds for the 1000m trial and looked to have plenty in reserve.

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WAGGA racing enthusiast Andrea Bradley had good reason to celebrate over the weekend.

Bradley is in the ownership of group two-winning mare Every Rose, who sold for a whopping $1.3 million on Friday.

Every Rose became just the second horse to surpass the magical seven figures in an Inglis Digital online auction when she was snapped up for $1.3 million by Suman Hedge Bloodstock on behalf of a client.

Bradley, whose husband is Murrumbidgee Turf Club treasurer Brett Bradley, enjoyed a great ride with the daughter of Choisir.

She won the group three Gimcrack on debut and the group two Light Fingers Stakes at three, among other highlights, before being retired and sold as a broodmare.

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KOORINGAL Stud celebrated a metropolitan winner in Adelaide on Saturday.

The Kooringal Stud-bred and raced All In War broke through for a valuable city win in the last race at Morphettville on Saturday.

After doing her early racing with Matthew Dale and Tim Donnelly, All In War registered the city win for Morphettville trainer Ryan Balfour, who she has been with all this year.

The five-year-old The Brothers War mare had been knocking on the door for some time and the win sent her lifetime earnings well over $100,000.

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THE picnic meeting added to the calendar for Murrumbidgee Turf Club has had a change in date.

The meeting, to be held on the Riverside track, has been moved from Sunday October 10 to Friday October 8. Nominations will close on Monday, October 4.

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GALLOPS

Saturday: Corowa (non-TAB)

Monday: Leeton (TAB)

TROTS

Friday: Wagga (TAB)

Tuesday: Wagga (TAB)

DOGS

Thursday: Temora (TAB)

Friday: Wagga (TAB)