After making the trek up to Moree on Saturday, Tamworth trainer Troy O'Neile will make the short trip to Quirindi on Monday with a team of two and a double chance in the Willow Tree Cup 20th June CG&E Maiden Plate.
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Both of his runners - Cinderella Fella and Fields Of Red - will start in the 1100m sprint.
The two have incidentally drawn next to each other with Cinderella Fella to go from barrier four and Fields Of Red barrier five.
The latter is first-up from a 23 week spell and will be ridden by Serg Lisnyy while Mikayla Weir will jump aboard Cinderella Fella.
"Two in the one race is always a tough thing," O'Neile said assessing their chances.
Tougher for the fact too that wife Kirsty owns the majority of both. He joked that it would be a hard one to tell her which one he thought was the better chance of the two.
He knows who the families' choice would be.
Cinderella Fella is the "pretty boy family favourite".
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The chestnut gelding will only be having his third race start, and second this preparation. O'Neile said both have been working well, and despite the lack of racing expects Fields Of Red to be up there on the pace. "He's up and reasonably fit," he said.
The former cowboy will be looking for his second win in the space of a week after Lord Tony delivered a welcome change in fortunes when he beat Cody Morgan's Rubble in a photo at Tamworth last Monday.
O'Neile's first winner this year, the win automatically qualifies Lord Tony for the lightning race on the Gunnedah Cup day program later this month.
He is though tossing around a few options for the gelding, possibly a highway race at Randwick over 1000m.
"We'll see how he works and see how he draws in the highway," he said.
After the Quirindi meeting the attention will turn to the Scone Race Club's two day Cup carnival.
O'Neile is contemplating starting Beauzen in the Inglis two-year old challenge but it will be a bit of a wait and see proposition.
"Being a two-year old they're a day to day prospect," he said.
The colt raced at Moree on Saturday but was "a bit disappointing" finishing back in sixth.
He was a lot happier with Capitulate's run. The gelding was his "usual honest self" and ran home third behind Peter Sinclair's Ayeteem.
