This Sunday marks the start of the biggest week of the year in harness racing for the Cowra Harness Racing Club, once a major centre for racing in the central west.
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The club now races just twice each year with both this Sunday's meeting and the Cowra Carnival of Cups meeting the following Sunday, receiving TAB coverage.
This Sunday's race program is set to start at 12.20pm with the meeting sponsored by Grenfell Commodities.
Parkes, Forbes and Eugowra stables are well represented at the meeting.
Forbes' Jason Gaffney has last start third placegetter Tiger Tommy engaged in the day's first event while Gary Eyre is represented by the veteran Royal Feeling, a last start second at Dubbo on the weekend.
Parkes and Forbes have two representatives in the day's second race, a Maiden Pace over 1700 metres.
Darryle Rusten of Parkes will be represented by Juz Butter with Tiarne Rusten in the gig, looking to improve on a last start sixth at its home track on May 23.
Tessfeelsgood, trained by Terrence Hush at Forbes will also be looking to improve, last start finishing fifth of 10 at Parkes on the same day.
Three local pacers will line up in the third race on the card with Jason Gaffney producing Reason to Be, Eugowra's Pat Jones lining up with Ripponlea (Mitch Turnbull) and James Clyburn taking Rogue Attitude (Stephen Dowton) to the races for the first time.
Reason to Be is the best performed of the three with a win and four minor placings from 14 career starts.
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Kempley Princess, for Forbes trainer Andrew Ward, is out to make it back to back wins when she lines up from the inside of the second row in the fourth event.
Attention then turns to the Grenfell Stud Mix Pace where Parkes' Stephen Dowton has Preacher Quince engaged and Forbes' Terrence Robb has Harley James.
Both will need to improve on mixed form at their recent starts.
Digger Shed, trained by Terrence Hush at Forbes, is the only local representative in the sixth event, the Grenfell Sweetblend Pace over 2160 metres. Now 10 years of age he'll have to improve significantly not having saluted since October 2018.
Entry to the meeting is by gold coin.
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