Nick Hall is looking forward to riding at his first Melbourne Cup carnival as a senior jockey and having his second ride in the famous race.Hall, who won the apprentices' title in Melbourne last season and had his first Melbourne Cup ride on Red Lord who finished 16th last year, is happy to be on either last year's placegetter C'est La Guerre or dual Cox Plate placegetter Zipping for his godfather, prominent owner Lloyd Williams.The 22-year-old won his first Group One race on Efficient in the Tu

Nick Hall is looking forward to riding at his first Melbourne Cup carnival as a senior jockey and having his second ride in the famous race.

Hall, who won the apprentices' title in Melbourne last season and had his first Melbourne Cup ride on Red Lord who finished 16th last year, is happy to be on either last year's placegetter C'est La Guerre or dual Cox Plate placegetter Zipping for his godfather, prominent owner Lloyd Williams.

The 22-year-old won his first Group One race on Efficient in the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington earlier this month.

While he won't be aboard the 2007 Melbourne Cup winner who will be ridden by Steven Arnold, Hall is happy to be on one of the John Sadler-trained stablemates.

"Steve does all the work there. They know what's best and I'll ride a second stringer," he said.

Hall, who was just five years old when his father Greg Hall guided Subzero to victory in the 1992 Cup, will try for his second Group One winner on Saturday when he rides Lady Lynette in the Myer classic at Flemington.

He rode one of the races of the spring carnival so far to get the Tasmanian mare home in the Group Three Independent Cranes Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

He managed to settle Lady Lynette beautifully in fifth spot after she jumped from barrier 13 and drove her through a gap in the straight to claim a long-head victory.

"It's a big ask backing her up into a Group One but the 1600 metres really suits her so we'll see how she measures up," Hall said.

Trained by Robert Smerdon, Lady Lynette was formerly prepared in Tasmania by David Brunton whose wife Julie is the managing part-owner of the five-year-old.

The mare has a great strike rate of nine wins from 20 starts and will be after a hat-trick following successive 1600m wins having won the Ladies' Day Vase at Caulfield on Thousand Guineas Day.

Last preparation, Brunton won the Listed Vamos Stakes (1400m) with Lady Lynette at Launceston in February and a 1400m event at Sandown in March.

Hall has been aboard at her past five starts.

He will also ride Light Vision for the Smerdon stable in the Group Three Lexus Stakes (2500m).

Light Vision was not paid up as a third acceptor for Tuesday week's $5.65 million Melbourne Cup after his below par 17th to Viewed in the Caulfield Cup when ridden by Luke Nolen.

"He was definitely disappointing but every horse is allowed one bad run and I'll give him the benefit of the doubt," Hall said.

Light Vision, who was beaten a half-head when runner-up in the equivalent race last year with Ben Melham in the saddle, had been racing well before his Caulfield Cup failure and won The Bart Cummings with Hall up at Flemington two starts back.

He will ride Valdemoro if she starts in Saturday's Group Two Wakeful Stakes (2000m) but he has recommended to trainer Tony Vasil to skip the race and go straight into next week's Group One VRC Oaks (2500m).

Hall has also been booked for the Robbie Griffiths-trained Cocinero in the Group Three AAMI Business Insurance Stakes (1400m) on Saturday.