Buster Brady will be aimed at the Miracle Mile, Terang is prepped for a big race night and the industry's handicapping is on the verge of change.

They are a small sample of a big agenda in this week's episode of One Out One Back, when RSN 927 host Andrew Kuuse spoke with Terang Harness Racing Club manager Mark Roberts and local trainer-driver Matt Craven, trainer-driver Kima Frenning, Ararat Harness Racing Club's Amanda Kirkpatrick and HRV General Manager - Racing Stephen Bell.

Saturday night will be a big one with a great field to battle for the Terang Co-Op Pacing Cup, which carries a beefed up $60,000 prize.

"It's well worth winning," said Mark Roberts, who's overseeing his first cup as Terang club manager. "It's quite busy. We've got upstairs and downstairs dining packages available, we've also got kids entertainment with jumping castles and stilt walkers, and live entertainment."

And there should also be plenty of great racing across the 10-race card, with the cup at 9.33pm and featuring three runners for local trainer Matt Craven, who's looking forward to make a mark on his home cup amid a big season.

"I've been down this way since we grew up on the farm, where we are (training) now we've been here for nearly two years," Craven said. "We have about 35 horses in work and this season everything's going OK, as long as we can keep it up."

The Trots Country Cups Championship is led by Buster Brady, who last Friday added the Echuca Pacing Cup to his standout season and Kima Frenning said more big things were in his path.

"He went super. He's come through really really well, he's pulled up really good and we are going to keep pressing on for a little bit with him," Frenning said.

"We are going to look at aiming him at the heats of the Miracle Mile. We will just see in the next couple of days, but that will be our next aim for him."

The country cups season winds on until its finale at Warragul on April 21, with Ararat on February 22 to follow this Saturday night's Terang leg.

Ararat secretary Amanda Kilpatrick said the club was looking forward to its change from an Easter date to the Friday night, when they hoped to draw the local community trackside.

"We really have a big cup night," she said. "Things work differently in different townships depending upon what's on, trying to know our local community and when they love to come out for a night out at the trots is really important to us.

"We have a lot of partnerships with local sporting groups as well, and trying to work out a night when they are not training in the footy or cricket is really important for us to have turnout on our race nights."

And One Out One Back also featured a chat with Stephen Bell, HRV General Manager - Racing, who delved into the HRA ratings-based handicapping system, with consultation sessions having been held at Shepparton on Tuesday and Ballarat last night before Cranbourne tonight and Mildura on Monday.

Mr Bell said the national change would move the trots closer to the gallops system, with horses having allocated ratings, which rise and fall in accordance with performances.

"(It's) a simple, clean process to move forward and it's really easy to understand, not just for the participants, but for the punters out there as well to now look at the form guide and see where each horse is rated."

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