The 2024 Massey Ferguson Woodend Cup is the feature event on a 10-event race card at Kyneton this Saturday, February 3.
And three Macedon Ranges-trained gallopers are in the Cup field.
Topweight Station One, from the Liam Howley stable, will be out to take his record to four Cup wins, having previously won the 2022 Kyneton Cup, and the Dunkeld and Traralgon Cups this season.
Stable apprentice Danika Munro is listed to ride Station One, claiming 4kg to reduce the five-year-old’s weight to 60.5kg.
At his latest outing on January 28, Station One ran third in the Great Western Cup after being in his customary role as race leader.
The five-year-old is very familiar with the Kyneton track.
Howley also has Bolshoi Princess in the field, after finishing second at Pakenham at her latest outing.
Kyneton’s Neil Dyer has chalked up successive wins with bargain buy Missed Victory, with the five-year-old breaking thorough at Hanging Rock on New Year’s Day, then following up with a victory at long odds over 2050m at Wodonga.
Hanging Rock Cup winner Friday At Five finished well on Australia Day, and Neil Farley has the ride again. Farley knows the Kyneton track very well.
It appears to be a wide open Cup, with the Paddy Payne-trained The Cunning Fox and Char likely to have their share of support.
Kyneton and Hanging Rock Racing Club has everything in readiness for Saturday’s meeting, with warm weather predicted.
Other races on the program include the Bobby Beare Memorial Handicap and the Brian Sheppard Memorial Handicap.
Woodend Cup Day has proved very enjoyable for many in past years, and the club is pleased to perpetuate what was the former Woodend Race Club’s long time drawcard before the clubs amalgamated.
Gates open at 11am on Saturday.
