The $14,500 Cup event will be one of the highlights of a packed nine-race program, which has delighted club officials.

“We’re very pleased about that as we are about the cup race,” said, Boort Harness Racing Club president John Campbell.

“It’s maybe our best cup field ever.”

Recent Echuca Cup winner Motu Meteor ($1.90) heads the cups fancies for champion trainer-driver Kerryn Manning.

The four-year-old followed his win at Echuca with a second in the Terang Cup and third in The Leo Crameri at Maryborough last weekend, on the back of a solid feature races campaign during the Inter Dominion in Perth.

A pair of central Victorian trainers hope to play the role of spoiler.

Veteran Serpentine trainer Robert Rothacker has his first Boort Cup runner with Repeat After Me, while Sutton Grange’s Graeme Dalton has the outsider Animated engaged.

Rothacker said he was pleased with the six-year-olds last few starts - including a second at Ballarat a month ago – and remained hopeful he could run another bold race.

“In a race like this he needs a real good tempo, otherwise he tends to pull to hard,” he said.

“The other day at Maryborough they only ran the first half (mile) in a minute; his last half might have been about 54.6.

“From where he was, the run was a lot better than it looked.

“If he finishes midfield or better I’ll probably be rapt, but it will probably be the first time a lot of these horses have run in a track that small. I think mine will get around it okay.”

Other feature races include the $14,500 Boort Trotters Cup and $10,000 mares sprint championship, which will mark the return of the promising four-year-old Mia From Memphis for Marong trainer Danny Curran.

Off the track, Racing Minister Martin Pakula will unveil Boort Harness Racing Club’s new $20,000 horse wash, jointly funded by the state government an Harness Racing Victoria.