In a break of tradition, the $75,000 Group 3 Easter Cup will be staged under lights a day early on Easter Saturday.

Harjeet has drawn gate six for the stand-start time-honoured feature, chasing his sixth straight victory.

The Todd Rattray-trained and driven Rocknroll Hanover-Our Zellweger star has won nine of 13 career starts, including five of six this season, and topped off his preparation with an electrifying all-the-way heat win on Sunday night, battling strong winds and torrential rain.

Harjeet is unbeaten in two stand-starts affairs and is likely to run favourite at toss-of-the-coin odds.

The Juanita McKenzie-prepared Isaac is in line to go one better than last year’s second after a sensational heat victory coming from near the tail of the field.

Ace driver Ricky Duggan had Isaac perfectly placed behind the leader in the early stages of the 2678-metre staying test, but found himself four back on the pegs in the final circuit after being shuffled back in the field.

Only Duggan’s magical touch in the sulky found a way to extricate Isaac away from the peg line and into the three-wide train working off the back stretch.

In driving rain and gale force winds Isaac hooked four and five wide and was scraping the outside fence turning for home.

Victorian visitor Stagger Lee kicked clear in the straight, but Isaac stormed down the outside, surging to the lead inside the final 100 metres, throwing down the gauntlet to Harjeet.

Call Her Julie, owned, trained and driven by Matthew Cooper ran a super race to finish third after doing a lot of the heavy lifting in the early stages of her heat.

The Lombo Pocket Watch-Lady Jillett Lombo six-year-old mare was trapped three-wide early before pressing forward to find the top in the middle stages and then handed up to Stagger Lee with a lap to run.

Bianca Heenan’s Star Chamber made good late ground when third to Harjeet and although beaten 17.8-metres it would be unwise to let the highly talented pacer sneak under your guard in the final.

Driver Dylan Ford is aware the Easter Cup is the only major Tasmanian feature race not on Star Chamber’s gold-embossed resume, and will look to utilise the nine-year-old Our Sir Vancelot-Courtney Breeze gelding’s greatest asset, its paralysing late sprint, to cause the upset on Saturday night.  

Dual Tasmania Cup winner Let’s Elope will need to show vast improvement on its disappointing heat to have any chance of success.

The ten-event card starts at 6.22pm with the Easter Cup at 8.22pm.