At Broadmeadow the mare has two runners.

Juji, which is by Johannesburg, a recent trial winner, will make her debut in race two.

Pretty Spectacular's third runner is Sweet Talker, a mare by Universal Prince, and she will be in race seven.

The three are raced by the O'Neill family, which includes Jim and son Mark.

Robert Thompson will ride the two Newcastle representatives and Scorse has decided to stay in Newcastle, where he has a big team racing.

Highly regarded Newcastle rider Andrew Gibbons has been called on to put another star galloper through its paces.

Gibbons will ride Newcastle Golden Slipper chance Elimbari in an exhibition gallop during tomorrow's Broadmeadow meeting.

The two-year-old filly will gallop with a stablemate over 800m.

Gibbons has ridden group 1 winners such as Choisir, Fastnet Rock and Stratum in track gallops or barrier trials in the lead-up to big races.

"Gibbo always does a great job in making sure a horse does exactly what a trainer needs in an exhibition gallop," Elimbari trainer Kris Lees said. "This gallop is vital to her preparation if she is to make it to the Golden Slipper.

"I will know after she works on Saturday whether to start her in the Silver Slipper the following Saturday or keep her back a week for the Kindergarten Stakes."

The exhibition gallop will be held after race one and Lees is still sorting out which of his other gallopers will work with Elimbari.

The Newcastle meeting tomorrow features nine races, which is a rarity at Broadmeadow these days.

In recent times it has been eight and even seven races and it has been many many months since the Newcastle Jockey Club played host to a nine-race program.

There were 28 entries for the 1200m maiden, so it was decided to split that event into two divisions.

Since Adam first backed Eve to win the love stakes it has been said that punters need big hearts to follow the horses.

In the case of Newcastle galloper Sequaceed punters need a strong heart to keep on backing the four-year-old gelding.

Two starts ago Sequaceed was first past the post in a 1150m race at Cessnock on February 2 but lost the race on protest.

So you can imagine the thoughts of connections, punters, trainer and jockey when that awful siren blurted out that there was a protest after Sequaceed was first past the post in a 1200m handicap at Gosford last Sunday.

But after a long hearing, the protest from the second placegetter was dismissed.

Top Hunter jockeys Allan Robinson and Robert Thompson shared a plane flight to Walcha last Friday for the country club's cup meeting.

"We were chatting away when someone on the plane asked why we kept going back to a country track like Walcha, which is hard to get to," Robinson said.

"Robbie did not have to think and just said because of the people.

"I thought that was exactly the reason. The people out there just love their racing and they really make it a great day."

The long flight was worth it for Robinson, who won the Walcha Cup on Ken Lantry-trained Tocapitalize.

"Ken was keen about the chances of his horse and that gave me confidence, because when he says they will go well they go really well," Robinson said.

But not everything in the race went as smoothly as Robinson's flight to the course.

"Ken said that his horse would be fourth or fifth in the run but the leaders went like scalded cats and I was back near last.

"Thankfully they stopped quickly and I stormed over the top of the leaders."

An interstate TV racing broadcaster with strong links to Newcastle now carries the nickname of the Intimidator.

It seems his style of questioning has owners, trainers and jockeys petrified.

So much so that one trainer was reduced to tears after his inquisition from the announcer.

Of course, the trainer who was left bawling his eyes out comes from Melbourne.

Newcastle dual group 1-winning jockey Darryl McLellan is recovering after having a shoulder operation last Friday.

McLellan has not ridden since the saddle slipped on The Early Bird, which he was riding in a barrier trial at Newcastle last year.

He had been having treatment on the shoulder but specialists decided he needed an operation to make sure it was right.

McLellan's surgeon has assured him he will be back riding in three months.

There will be a prize with a difference for punters to win at Sunday's Blue Tongue Cup meeting at Wyong.

At last year's inaugural Blue Tongue Brewery-sponsored meeting eight shares in the pure white filly The Opera House were given away.

This year one patron will win the prize of becoming a brewer for a day.

"On entering the track on Sunday patrons will be given an entry form which all they need to is fill in and at 4pm we will draw the winner," Wyong chief executive officer Tony Drew said yesterday.

"The winner gets the chance to spend a day with the master brewers at the Blue Tongue Brewery learning the art of brewing beer.

"I would be thinking this will be a real fun day for the winner. The winner also gets two cartons of Bluetongue delivered to the family home. As well, they will get a box at the Blue Tongue Stadium, at Gosford, to watch the NRL double header to be held the following week.

"The winner and mates will be fully catered for and that completes a great prize to be won simply be being on the track this Sunday."