A ride in his home city of Albury for the Lindsay Park stable has led to Blaike McDougall landing his first Melbourne city winner aboard Prism at Sandown.

Problems continue to dog trainer Ben Currie with one of his horses disqualified after winning the last race at Toowoomba because the jockey weighed in light.

Trainer Robbie Laing is confident Stars Of Carrum has recovered from his failure in the Australian Derby and is on song for a shot at the VRC St Leger.

There are strong nominations for the feature races at the Hawkesbury metropolitan class meeting with more than $1 million on offer.

Trainer Tony Gollan has been forced to revert to a back-up plan after he was scratching two stable stars because of a wet Doomben track.