Jockey Reece Jones hasn’t given up on Scone and Muswellbrook Cup winner Commando Hunt making an impact in Tuesday’s $3 million Big Dance (1600m) at Randwick.

Trainer Cameron Crockett has no doubt consistent galloper Titration has a Highway win in him but is going back to Plan B as he heads to Muswellbrook on Sunday hoping to notch a breakthrough victory.

The lure of a ticket into the $3 million Big Dance for talented galloper Akasawa has drawn Paul Messara to Sunday’s $40,000 Mannion Drilling Gunnedah Cup (1600m) – and the trainer has his fingers crossed it’s the right call.

Trainer Cameron Crockett has some unfinished business when it comes to the Newhaven Park Country Championships with last year’s runner-up Commando Hunt but he fears the weather at Tamworth this week may leave it unfinished.

Scone trainer Cameron Crockett has always had the big picture in mind when Country Championships runner-up Commando Hunt returns at Dubbo on Sunday so he couldn’t believe his luck when one of the gelding’s owners drew a slot in The Kosciuszko.