Hoist, to be ridden by Adam Nicholls, will start in the Saxby’s Ginger Beer Benchmark 70 and Godbolt warns she badly needed the run to be fit for Port Macquarie. This will be her third run back from a spell and Godbolt said she usually needed several races to get back to her best.

“She is a big, gross mare and with all the rain we have had I have not been able to give her the work I would have liked,” he said.

“She has been getting a lot of trotting and cantering, which is not ideal, but it is the best we can do.

“That is why the run at Taree is so important for later this month.” Godbolt also plans to run Never Doubt Me in the Queen Of The North and she had her final lead up race when she won at Newcastle on January 28.

“She is a filly that needs her runs spaced, but again I have not been able to give her the work I would have liked.

“I fear both my runners will not be as fit as I would have liked, but I guess we are all in the same boat at the moment.”

Fellow Port Macquarie trainer Tas Morton is keen to see what Juggah Hill can produce first-up in the NBN Television Class One, but has warned that the five-year-old will need the run.

Juggah Hill showed plenty of promise early, but was then hit with a tendon injury that required a long break.

He returned to the races last October with a brilliant first-up second at Coffs Harbour then hurt himself again on the training track.

“He pulled a stifle muscle, which needed some fairly intensive treatment then another trip to the spelling paddock,” Morton said.

“He has come along in leaps and bounds since he came back into work, but like everyone else it has been hard to get the work into him that he needs.

“He has drawn the outside and has top weight which is no help, but I am keen to see just where we are at with him.”