The eight-race card features five maidens, including a 1000 metre two-year-old contest that will feature a number of highly-fancied juveniles.

The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained San Antonio currently sits as $2.70 favourite with the TAB fixed odds.

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The debutant will take on high-priced colt Strategist and Godolphin's Andermatt in a contest in which seven of the 10 horses are making their first start.

The locals will also be well-represented throughout the day, with Gwenda Markwell confident of snaring a number of winners on her home track.

Among her top hopes are Speed and Style, who will contest a benchmark 64 in race eight, and emerging gelding Doctor Mancini, who will make his debut in a 1000m maiden plate.

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The gelding will lineup alongside stablemate Out To Lunch and Robert and Luke Price's Kentucky Award.

The father-son duo have had their struggles with the four-year-old, but Robert is optimistic he is beginning to develop into a promising racehorse.

"We're using this race as a trial," Price, who formerly trained out of Nowra, said.

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"He does a few things wrong, he got a reprieve from retirement, we're giving him one more go.

"He'll be better this run, he just needs to work out a more economical style of galloping.

"He loses his action when he comes off the bridle, so we're hoping he might learn something."