Half Yours continues his late season push for Horse of the Year honours in the Group 2 $500,000 Hollindale Stakes (1800) at the Gold Coast on Saturday.

Splash Back has claimed some high profile scalps to win the Victory Stakes.

Churchill’s Choice finally realised her potential and ran down a class field to win the Group 3 $250,000 Hawkesbury Gold Cup (1600m) at Hawkesbury on Saturday.

Skyhook proved there is no substitute for class and put himself firmly into the Stradbroke Handicap conversation with a brilliant all-the-way win in the Group 3 $250,000 Hawkesbury Guineas (1400m) at Hawkesbury on Saturday.

There’s Group 1 racing at Morphettville but the race of the day is the Group 2 $300,000 Victory Stakes (1200m) at Eagle Farm today.

Selections and best bets from Chris Scholtz for the Hawkesbury Cup meeting on May 2 plus Trial Watch and Blackbook runners.

Bianco Vilano completed the rare Riverina big-race double when he defeated a classy field in the Listed $200,000 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup (2000m) at Wagga Wagga on Friday.

Ahead of his second Queensland campaign, co-trainer Calvin McEvoy has proclaimed Melbourne Cup champion Half Yours’ trip to the Sunshine State last year was the making of the star galloper.

Trainer Gerald Ryan can secure a two-state Guineas double with talented three-year-olds Skyhook and Snitzel Dancer on Saturday.

The maestro David Payne can engineer an upset result with luckless mare Shohisha in the Group 3 $250,000 Hawkesbury Gold Cup (1600m) at Hawkesbury on Saturday.

Hall of Fame trainer Chris Waller’s Group 1-winning streak relies on outsider Savisanta in the Group 1 $1 million South Australian Derby (2518m) at Morphettville on Saturday.

Group 1 placegetter Karinska and untapped colt Tenenbaum headline Tommy Berry’s Hawkesbury book.

Way To The Stars hasn’t had circumstances to suit at his past two starts, but he shapes to get the right set-up at Hawkesbury.