THE Bendigo Jockey Club will have a dress rehearsal for next month’s Moss Trooper Steeplechase meeting when it hosts six jumps trials today.Desert Master, winner of the 2009 Grand National Hurdle, is the headline act for today’s trials. The Grant Craven-trained nine-year-old will go around in the third hurdle trial at 11.30am.“We’re really excited to have jumps racing back in Bendigo,” BJC chief executive Ian Hart said yesterday.“This is only a trials meeting, but it will give us a guide to how we set things up for our jumps meetings in June.”Today’s trials will be run on the course proper with six jumps set up around the circuit – two in the back straight, two in the home straight and one on each of the bends.“This is a minimum requirement for trials and we’re hoping that the jockeys and stewards give us all the all clear to have the jumps on the turns for raceday as well,” Hart said.“What we’re hoping for raceday is to have 11 flights for the 3200-metre hurdle races and for the 3600-metre steeple we’re hoping for 14 flights.“The 3200-metre start will be around the 1250-metre mark and they will jump one soon after the start, one around the home turn, two down the home straight, one at the 1800m mark, three down the back straight, one around the turn again and two in the home straight, which makes 11.“The 3600m start will be at the 1600m mark in the back straight, so they will jump all seven steeples twice.“We’ll just have to wait and see how the trials go first.”The BJC’s first jumps meeting will be on June 2 when it hosts two 3200m hurdle races.On Sunday, June 19, the club will stage the $60,000 Moss Trooper Steeple (3600m) and two more 3200m hurdle races.The first of four hurdle trials is at 11am this morning, while the first of two steeple trials will be run at 12.45pm.Master jumps trainer Eric Musgrove has 10 horses entered today, headed by in-form hurdler Famous Prince.Famous Prince won the Yalumba Hurdle at Oakbank two starts ago before running third to Zendi in the Galleywood Hurdle at Warrnambool last week.