Topweight Master Reset (Matt Laurie) and Kylie Vella’s Aeratus will wait until acceptances close at 9.30am for Sunday’s $130,000 Kilmore Cup.

“It depends on the field, like the field at Wodonga is obviously going to be easier, so it will depend on the draw and how big the field is,” Vella said.

Darren Weir will also monitor Kilmore with Refulgent.

There’s one Wodonga horse in Peter Maher’s Cha Cha King, while Wangaratta has two runners in Dan McCarthy’s Pittsburgh and the Ledger stable’s Frankly Harvey.

Thirteen runners have accepted for the $90,000 Wodonga Cup (1590m).

“We’re pretty happy with a good mix of Melbourne-based runners and the couple of the locals, which is fantastic as well,” Wodonga and District Turf Club general manager Tom O’Connor said.

Vella has mixed emotions on drawing barrier one.

“He’s a horse that will get back a little, but with one you have to use the barrier a bit, it’s not ideal, but it’s OK,” she said.

Aeratus is an eight-year old, but has had only 15 starts, for an outstanding seven wins.

The gelding had almost three years off after being caught up in the ibuprofen issue.

Ibuprofen is a prohibited anti-inflammatory substance, with horses returning positive swabs long after they were taken off the medication.

Vella has had Aeratus for around 18 months, but with less than a month before his first race for the stable, the Ballarat trainer became aware the horse wasn’t allowed to run due to the previous positive samples.

“We had to retire him basically, he had six months in the paddock and he was running around, there was nothing wrong with him,” she said.

“So we put him back into work and took another sample in a month and thought, ‘if he’s over, they’ll (the owners) pull the pin’.

“But he did five samples leading up to racing and they were all OK.”

Aeratus’s first race back was on November 12.

“We were pretty stoked with the win, it was probably like winning the Melbourne Cup for all of us,” she said.

“For us, he’s obviously the best horse we’ve got in the stables and close to one of the best we’ve had.

“He’s pulled up well after Ararat, so we couldn’t be happier with him.”

The Cup is scheduled for 4pm.

The forecast is for a mostly sunny morning, but with the possibility of showers and thunderstorms in the mid- to-late afternoon.

However, most of the activity should be centred south of Albury-Wodonga.