Of great interest to all will be the battles to the line for the season’s premierships, with Lynda Bundy holding a narrow lead over John Marzol in the trainers’ title, and Brendan Ward is just ahead of Kevin Sweeney in the jockeys’ race.

Lynda’s My Private Dancer, nominated for Monday, shares the lead with Donna Grisedales’ Man Of Destiny (not nominated) in the Horse of the Year title, but any one of about a dozen others are positioned to claim the final victory. 

It’s going to be nail-biting stuff to the end of the day before that premiership is decided.

The Moruya Jockey Club has received 130 nominations for the meeting, with only 43 of those coming from our home track trainers. 

Hopefully after the final fields are declared that daunting ratio of visitors to locals will be trimmed somewhat.

Full information for the day appears on the Moruya Jockey Club’s promotional poster for the meeting on the page 37 of today’s editions.

Let’s all hope for continuing good weather for Monday, with good luck to all, particularly our home track runners and trainers, with safe riding to all jockeys, bringing to an end another fantastic season brought to us all by the Moruya Jockey Club.

The past week has been another active one for our trainers, kicking off at Canberra last Friday with four Moruya runners making the trip and Roly Saxton riding there. 

Our best result came from John Peiti’s Brown Bob, ridden from well back by Roly into an impressive close fourth in the Class Three mile. 

Roly also rode a sensational second for Goulburn-based Emma Longmire, aboard her $50 long shot On The High Seas, which returned $11 for the place. 

We had two runners step out on Saturday, firstly Wade Mathie’s Bella Mist, who showed great improvement although unplaced in a strong Maiden sprint at Kembla Grange. 

Our city runner was Luke Pepper’s Zuccherina, who ran in the $85,000 Benchmark 85 (1350m) event for fillies and mares at Rosehill, where she ran brilliantly for a very close fifth placing, being in the leading group throughout. 

She’s competing at a very high level regularly now and continues to acquit herself well with every run.

Steve Cummin’s Superb was accepted for Sunday’s Narrandera meeting but was a scratching.  

I’ll be following with interest John Peiti’s border marauder Halfashot, now stabled at Taralgon with Robert Lont. 

He had his first run for Robert on Monday at Echuca where he ran a great third placing in the Benchmark 70 sprint at huge odds on the heavy going.

The Goulburn meeting on Tuesday saw eight Moruya gallopers step out, and if it was not for our Monday meeting taking the headline, Colbey Hill’s Lighty Tonighty had the space sewn up. 

Roly took Lighty Tonighty to the lead in the Maiden mile, shaking off all pursuers up the straight except David Van Dyke’s Escarpment who broke clear from the pack to chase, heartbreakingly nailing Lighty by a nose in the very last stride to the line. 

She gets the run of the week and the ride of the week goes to Roly for this magnificent effort. 

Rachel Backhouse’s The Devils Mark, also ridden by Roly, finished a terrific closing second in the Benchmark 60 (1200m) race. 

It was pleasing that The Devils Mark nosed out Van Dyke’s Water Kiss for second, while Luke’s Sydney Melody finished just behind in fourth. 

Our second city runner this week was John Marzol’s Bel Esandy who ran in the Benchmark 70 (1900m) event at Canterbury on Wednesday, running in contention for most of the race until fading out of the placings in the last 150m, but losing no admirers in the process. 

John’s pair Daryl (race 5) and There Is No Drama (Race 6) are our two representatives at Wagga today.

Until next week, good luck and good punting.