SLICK sprinters News Girl and Front Page are set to have their first serious hit out ahead of their highly anticipated return to racing at Corowa today.
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Trainer Geoff Duryea plans to ramp up the stablemates trackwork with the pair likely to resume later this month or early September at the latest.
But Duryea said where the pair head for their first-up assaults is still yet to be finalised with Racing NSW banning horses from crossing the NSW-Victorian border.
Ideally Duryea would like both his stable stars to resume in Victoria.
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"The ideal way, and our ideal thinking before all this blew up is that they would come back in and they would have one or two runs in Victoria," Duryea told Racing.com.
"We then intended to see how they were going and which one was going the best and we'd plan our attack then.
"Whether one of them went up to The Kosciuszko or they both stayed in Vic, who knows?
"So everything is hinging on V'landys at the moment.
"There's nothing I can do about it, everyone is in the same boat.
"It's making it very difficult for everyone.
"If he said no for the whole carnival for everyone, well then so be it. But at the moment we don't know."