WIDESPREAD interest has been shown by trainers for Krambach Race Club's $20,000 Krambach Cup celebrating its 130th anniversary at Taree on Friday.
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Horses from Port Macquarie, Tamworth, Wyong, Cessnock, Grafton, Kempsey and Taree have been nominated for the 1600m cup.
The TAB event on an eight-race card where free entry is being given by the club appears to be a battle between the old stagers and the new kids on the block.
Four-year-old Port gelding More Than A Holiday is the youngest in the field whereas eight-year-olds provide the dominant mix.
More Than A Holiday, trained by Ken Faulds, is ideally suited by the distance after a good finishing burst over 1500m to Flying Kistena at Port on October 11.
It has only had 14 starts for two wins and won first-up for the stable over 1212m on its home track in July, on that occasion coming from last on the turn.
Wyong trainer Damien Lane has nominated eight-year-old gelding Attitude Pays, a last start winner in good time over 1600m at Coonamble and also has six-year-old gelding Nissile entered.
The latter ran at the same meeting as its stablemate over the same distance and finished eighth, beaten only 3.2 lengths in the Coonamble Cup.
Also in that cup was seven-year-old Sambora which was 10th, beaten 4.4 lengths, for Tamworth trainer Karen Fox who would be making a first visit to Taree should she accept with her galloper.
Cessnock trainer Jeremy Sylvester has seven-year-old gelding Showmethemoney which has been campaigning in Queensland and last raced at the Gold Coast where it was beaten 5.6 lengths when last over 1400m but has won seven races and been placed a dozen more times from 40 starts.
Local gallopers with a good record on the track are eight-year-old mare Lotsa Lobban, trained by Robert Barnes and a similar aged gelding Perlaact, trained by Greg Drury.
Perlaact has finished just behind the placings in two other Krambach Cups and still has a spring in its step, according to Drury.
It has won five of its 10 races at the track whereas Lotsa Lobban, which resumed for a third to Road To Summer in the Bowraville Cup over 1370m on September 27, has had six of its eight wins on the Bushland Drive surface.
Acceptances for the meeting will be taken ton Wednesday.
