Vern Graham Hardware/Berger Paints Heyfield Cup will be contested at the Sale Turf Club on Sunday (for horses rated up to 68) and Richracer, from the John McArdle yard is the testing material.

He goes into the event second up from a spell after a very solid fresh run behind the promising Sayaprayerforme at Ballarat.

Richracer was scratched on Thursday to be kept for Sunday's race and being a horse that gets back and runs on, he will appreciate the spacious Sale track and the step to 1422 metres.

The three year-old drops in class on his recent assignments and looks a very solid each way chance.

The other feature at Sale is the Commercial Hotel Country Stayers' Challenge over 2222 metres (for horses rated up to 89) and a couple of gallopers who ran the quinella at the last meeting should be thereabouts again.

The Robbie Laing prepared Tayoshi looked impressive winning here last Friday, but he comes up against Envisioning (Doug Harrison), which meets Tayoshi two and a half kilos better off for short neck margin, and should turn the tables.

Looking for a couple of other winners on the card and Warrenpoint in the care of Nikki Burke should be hard to hold out in the Railway Hotel class One.

In the Tryhorns Supa IGA maiden plate, Hafnium, in the care of Moe's Catherine Martindale, has two starts at the track for two seconds and should improve that record, while perhaps the bet of the day is the Brian Jenkins trained, Russian Belle, in the Wallaby Rise fillies and mares handicap over 1722 metres.

With a big crowd from Heyfield anticipated, there are plenty of activities planned on course for what should be a superb day of racing.

PIC - Quentin Lang.

Tim Bull (Gippsland Racing) Media Release Published 30/03/07