Veteran trainer Bede Murray has won his fair share of big races but is aiming for his first victory in the PJ Bell country Championship at Randwick.Based at Conjola on the NSW south coast, multiple Group One winner Murray has never been tempted to move to the city preferring to keep his horses happy on the farm.Son Paul, also a trainer, keeps his team at Kembla Grange and is looking after Morning Time while his father enjoys a holiday in Western Australia.Morning Time goes into Monday's P J Bell

Veteran trainer Bede Murray has won his fair share of big races but is aiming for his first victory in the PJ Bell country Championship at Randwick.

Based at Conjola on the NSW south coast, multiple Group One winner Murray has never been tempted to move to the city preferring to keep his horses happy on the farm.

Son Paul, also a trainer, keeps his team at Kembla Grange and is looking after Morning Time while his father enjoys a holiday in Western Australia.

Morning Time goes into Monday's P J Bell (1400) after a last-start fifth in the Nowra Cup with Paul Murray saying he found the 1600 metres of that race beyond him.

"He found the Nowra Cup too far," Murray said.

"His form before that was really good and he likes the wet which is a big plus because that's what he will get.

"I'm not sure we've ever even had a runner in the P J Bell so it would be nice to win it with the first."

Morning Time will be reunited with Tye Angland who rode him to victory at Goulburn on May 14 after steering him to second in the Wagga Town Plate two weeks earlier.

Angland returns to Randwick on a high after claiming his first Group One success on Black Piranha in Saturday's Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm.

Also returning to Sydney from Brisbane are Hugh Bowman and Corey Brown who will resume their battle for premiership honours.

Bowman has ridden 70 winners so far this season, two more than Brown who won the title in 2001-02 after a close tussle with Darren Beadman.

Both Brown and Bowman are past winners of the apprentices' premiership.

The trainers' title is also developing into an intriguing contest between Gai Waterhouse and Peter Snowden.

Waterhouse's lead has been whittled back to 7-1/2 over the past few weeks and Snowden can capitalise on that at Randwick where he has several runners and his rival none.

Snowden, in his first full season as Sheikh Mohammed's number one Australian trainer, says he intends to give the title his best shot.

"There are still several weeks to go," Snowden said.

"We can't make it happen but we are giving it a shot."

"If it doesn't happen this year then I'd like to think it would happen next year."