The Cowra Paceway will host a nine race program with the Cup headlining a massive day of country racing.

Turnbull said Cowra is somewhere he enjoys supporting and said its always good to see pacing return to Cowra whenever possible.

"They're trying to do get the interest back into the small country towns, Cowra used to be really strong for harness racing when I was young but it did slip away," he said.

With his daughter contesting two Group 1 races in New Zealand over the weekend, Turnbull will be absent from the Cowra meeting but will entrust his sons Mitch and Nathan as the reinsmen in the Cup.

Smiling Cullen has drawn the widest barrier in the second row while Yabba Dabba Do will begin five in from the pegs in the front.

"Nathan [Turnbull] will drive Yabba Dabba Do and Mitch [Turnbull] will drive Smiling Cullen," Turnbull said.

"Everything is good and going well [this week], they're both racing really well at the moment, I don't have any preferences."

One of the Turnbull's team main threats will be Jim Clyburn's in form four-year-old gelding Peggyville which won the $10,000 Golden Gig in its last start during Dubbo's Carnival of Cups program two weekends ago.

Peggyville stormed home over the favourite to win by a half-head over the 2120m journey.

It will be a likely contender on Sunday along with the Bernie Hewitt trained Katsidis which will have Canowindra's Mat Rue in the gig.

Katsidis has seven wins and another 14 minor placings from 44 starts for $45,480 prize-money and the four-year-old gelding has a good chance of ballooning that figure this weekend.

Adding to the excitement on Sunday will be two Menangle Country Series Heats.

Races three and nine will see the top two from each race qualify for the final at Menangle on July 4.

Steve Turnbull will once again feature heavily and he hopes to score the quinella in race nine.

"Yep for sure, the country series heats are always popular and are good for country racing," he said.

The main Cowra interest on the day will be Daryl Davis and his seven year-old gelding Fantasy Level which won it's last start on the home track during March.

Davis and Fantasy Level will feature in race four, the Charlie Muddle Memorial (2100m).

A win would be Fantasy Level's fourth for the season and would take it's career earnings past $40,000.

Stablemate Dot Ayou will run in the three-year-old's Picker Constructions Classic and will look to record it's first career win.

Racing begins at 11.50am this Sunday, May 31, with the Tritech Cup set for 3.19pm.

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