Greg Polson's view - Queenslander's dominating at Ballina as well as the footy

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Gold Coast trainers have realistic chances of winning three of the seven races at Ballina.

The appropriately named Party Till Dawn looks hard to beat in the Scott Worgan Bucks Bender F&M Benchmark 55 Handicap (1000m) for trainer Stephen Jones.

The four-year-old daughter of All Bar One has won two of her seven career starts to date including a Gold Coast class one handicap victory on September 5 before finishing out of the placings in a tougher race at the Sunshine Coast last time.

Sunday's assignment looks considerably easier and the 3kg off apprentice Mollie Partridge brings the mare in with a winnable weight.

Party Till Dawn will take plenty of beating from a good draw on Sunday.

One More Magic brings Brisbane metropolitan form to the Go The Broncos Class 1 Handicap (1250m).

Trained by Kim Craft, One More Magic will be having her second run back from a break after finishing runner-up at the Gold Coast on September 19.

One More Magic only needs to capture the form she displayed in her first preparation to be the horse to beat winning at Ipswich on May 20 before finishing on the placegetters heels in the $100,000 Pheonix at Doomben on May 30.

That form is certainly good enough for a class one at Ballina.

Holy Harry for Marcus Wilson has the form on the board to win the Go The Cowboys Maiden Plate (1600m) after finishing close up in each of his three starts to date but will need plenty of luck after drawing the extreme outside barrier.

Holy Harry is ready to win and just needs even luck in running from the gate to be hard to hold out at the finish.

H ear Greg Polson's full assessment of Ballina on RSN when he previews the meeting at approximately 10.30am.

Greg uses sectional times provided by Vince Accardi and the team from dailysectionals.com.au

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