MOREE trainer Peter Sinclair sends more than half his stable around at his home track on Friday.
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The outstanding and longstanding trainer, who has 20 horses in work, will have 12 runners at Friday's eight-race Moree TAB meeting.
It was a meeting originally set down for Armidale but drought and the lack of water at Armidale has seen its recent meetings transferred to Gunnedah and now Moree.
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Sinclair is having a good run of late, with Free Billy winning last Sunday's $75,000 Coonabarabran Bowling Club Coonabarabran Cup (1600m).
That followed a double at Gunnedah the previous day, where he also quinellaed the last race with Place Street and Swoop.
Palace Street and Swoop will also match up again, in race six at Moree on Friday - the $22,000 Tattersalls Hotel Narrabri Class 3 Handicap (950m).
Sinclair also has two representatives in two other races and three - Moree Dreaming, I Am Dynamic and Silver Art - in the $22,000 Amaroo Tavern Benchmark 66 Handicap (1300m).
It has been a good start to the season for the Moree trainer, who lies equal second on the Hunter and North West Racing Association trainer's premiership.
Kris Lees leads that premiership with 17 wins whilst Scone's Paul Messara, Newcastle's Paul Perry and Peter Sinclair are equal second with nine apiece.
"I just like to set myself a little goal each year," Sinclair said. "If I can finish around the top 10 I'm happy. I know I've had a half decent year."
Sinclair has 20 horses in work at Moree, where he is the sole trainer. With no water problems and a good swimming pool, he works his horses in quiet and serene conditions.
"I've only got to travel a little bit," he said, relishing the transferred meetings to Moree from Armidale. "It's a huge bonus for us."
He said all 12 of his runners on Friday are "each way chances".
"I'm lucky they are all ready to race," he said. "Just lucky to have so many good people also helping me."
He said Coona Cup star Free Billy will have his next start in the $32,000 Cotton Cup at Warren on November 10.
"He's an amazing horse for a nine-year-old," Sinclair said. "Nathan (his son) told me he'd won $52,000 this prep before the Coona Cup.
"I rode him Tuesday morning and thought I'd get an easy ride but he tugged me around all the way. He could have almost come up again (to race) the next day."
Meanwhile, Tamworth Jockey Club is preparing for another huge Melbourne Cup meeting on Tuesday.
The club received good nominations for its five-race TAB meeting on its B grass this Tuesday, with a number of the local trainers all in form.
Cody Morgan (Derby Star), Colin Dixon (Miss Kokkinakis) and Sue Grills (Under The Thumb and Burning Crown) all celebrated wins at the Coonabarabran Cup meeting on Sunday.
2019-20 HUNTER & NORTH WESTERN RACING ASSOCIATION PREMIERSHIPS
Unofficial and compiled by Geoff Newling after Monday, October 28 Cessnock meeting.
TRAINERS
17: Kris Lees.
9: Paul Messara, Paul Perry, Peter Sinclair.
5: Brett Cavanough, Sue Grills, Cody Morgan, Luke Morgan.
4: Michelle Fleming, John Ramsey.
3: Cameron Crockett, Allan Denham, Rod Northam, Melanie O'Gorman, Todd Payne.
2: David Atkins, Tracey Bartley, Luke Berger, Justin Bowen, Kristen Buchanan, Jane Clement, Anthony Cummings, Colin Dixon, Nathan Doyle, Shane Edmonds, Jeff Englebrecht, Todd Howlett, Craig Martin, Gary Nickson, Stirling Osland, Nathaniel Scott, Matthew Smith, Jeremy Sylvester, Brett Thompson, Sally Torrens.
1: Gavin Andrews, Aleacia Bennett, Peter Bloomfield, David Callaughan, David Campbell, Peter Clare, Craig Clegg, Jason Deamer, Leigh Desreaux, Bryan Dixon, Scott Dixon, Jeremy Everson, Larry Fairhall, Allan Foran, Sarah Gaffaney, Stephen Gleeson, Tony Green, Mack Griffith, Gavin Groth, Zach Hatch, Ben Hill, Ian Holland, Michael Hemmings, Lesley Jeffriess, Damien Lane, Richard Litt, Neville McCarthy, Ciaron Maher & David Eustace, Mark Mason, Nick Mitchell, Mary Moses, Carmen Murnane, Troy O'Neile, Wayne Oakenfull, Bruce Parker, Ken Parker, Glen Petersen, David Pfieffer, Andrew Robinson, Grant Seelin, Wayne Seelin, Lea Selby, Kelly Smith, Scott Thompson, Les Tilley, Terry Vidler, Adam Vine, Dale Wagstaff, William Wain, Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott, Kim Waugh, Denim Wynen.
JOCKEYS
24: Aaron Bullock.
14: Greg Ryan.
10: Andrew Gibbons.
8: Brooke Stower.
7: Rachael Murray.
6: Darryl McLellan, Christian Reith.
5: Vad Bolozhinskyi, Ashley Morgan.
4: Grant Buckley, Billy Cray, Ben Looker, Jodi Worley.
3: Serg Lisnyy, Blake Spriggs, Scott Sweedman, Robert Thompson, Travis Wolfgram.
2: Andrew Banks, Sam Clenton, Luke Cumberland, Shaun Guymer, Belinda Hodder, Chris O'Brien, Jake Pracey-Holmes, Nozi Tomizawa, Jean Van Overmeire.
1: Peter Graham, Jake Hull, Daniel Northey, Matthew Paget, Jeff Penza, Daniel Pitomac, Christian Reith, Luke Rolls, Geoff Snowden, Les Tilley.
APPRENTICES
16: Yvette Lewis.
5: Mikayla Weir.
3: Louise Day.
2: Emily Atkinson, Liam Blanch, Jenny Duggan, Clayton Gallagher.
1: Kate Cowan, Stefanie Metcalfe, Wendy Peel, Qin Yong.
