Former champion apprentice jockey Tengku Rehaizat on Tuesday rode at his first barrier trials since his nasty race fall back in January.

Now that the winner of the Mornington Cup in a fortnight gets a free ticket into the G1 Caulfield Cup in October, the race has attracted a great deal more interest and this afternoon’s prelude has assembled a handy group of stayers on target for the feature.

Gai Waterhouse will turn back the clock 11 years if her promising staying prospect Rain Drum can jump into open class with a win in Friday's $140,000 Wagga Gold Cup.

We may be moving away from Flemington but the Cups racing continues in Victoria with today's NMIT Kyneton Cup (race 7).

Co trainers Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra started the spring with high aspirations for their talented stayer Lucky Eighty Eight and ended with an adequate consolation in Wednesday's $100,000 Kyneton Cup.