The TAB Summer of Glory is bubbling from a simmer towards boiling point and the nation’s leading race caller can’t wait to share more moments of trots immortality.

Dan Mielicki will climb the Tabcorp Park Melton stairs on February 5 to call his 27th Del-Re National A. G. Hunter Cup, the pinnacle moment of the four-night series that begins tomorrow night and resets the Australasian trots landscape.

“Any time you get to see the best it’s exciting,” Mielicki said. “To be able to plan for, prepare and then watch them is something we all relish. We want to see the best and that’s what this time of the year offers.”

The TAB Summer of Glory kicks off with tomorrow's PETstock Ballarat Pacing Cup card, which also features the Group 2 E B Cochran Trotters Cup.

Then it’s on to Tabcorp Park Melton for three big nights, beginning with January 29 and the VHRC Caduceus 3YO Classic, continuing on February 4 with the What The Hill Great Southern Star before reaching its February 5 summit with the Hunter Cup.

And already the hype has been building, with Spirit Of St Louis sweeping the Bendigo and Shepparton cups to emerge as a key pacing player.

“They are like the previews leading up to the big race and each week it gets stronger and better and more difficult as horses battle for places in the Hunter Cup,” Mielicki said.

“They have to put their hands up at Bendigo or Shepparton, and then Ballarat is generally stronger again. If their form drops they can drift out. It is exciting, it builds and builds to the crescendo – the Hunter Cup.”

That continues tonight at Ballarat, when much is on the line including one of Victoria’s most coveted Cups.

“It’s a genuine Group 1 field,” Mielicki said. “It comes quickly, all of a sudden it’s like ‘wow’, I didn’t think there would be that many good horses going around.

“Country Cup winners, Lochinvar Art, Expensive Ego, who was first past the post in the Inter Dominion, Amazing Dream. It’s outstanding.”

And it’s a recipe made all the more delicious by the barrier draw, with key players Spirit of St Louis and Lochinvar Art drawing gates one and two and the Victoria Cup champ, Max Delight, on their direct outside.

“I do think Max Delight is going to lead and then David Moran has to work out what he does with Lochinvar Art,” Mielicki said.

“Is Lochinvar Art capable of going quick enough early to make sure everything else doesn’t get there first? He clearly needed the run and this is a similar, staying trip. Is firing off the arm really his best go in a 2700-metre race?”

They are questions that will be answered amid his call from 9.37pm.