"There will be too many, I reckon," Yole said on Thursday as he went about preparing not only for the resumption of local racing but an impending Victorian campaign.

"We'll have two meetings a week for five of the first seven weeks but from August through to October I'm expecting us to go back to one," he said.

"I'll definitely be sending a team to Victoria like I did last year."

Yole has a near-capacity 70 horses in work at his Sidmouth property, with most ready to race.

But he doesn't expect all of them to get a run at the early meetings.

"I think overall there's probably more horses in work in Tasmania at the moment than there normally would be at this time of the year," he said.

"I'll try to get a run for my horses here - the others will have to go to Victoria.

"As long as we can move about, I could send some over as early as July when the zone system in Victoria ends otherwise they'll go in early August."

Yole set up a satellite stable in Victoria for several months last year, winning almost 20 races and about $120,000 in stakemoney.

"I'll send over a wide mix of horses - my metropolitan class horses and claimers will go because there are more opportunities for them," he said.

"You can really place a horse over there. For example, there's a lot more races for horses that might be suited over a mile."

With the harness season extended until December 31, Yole has a good chance to break the state record 182 winners he trained in 2018-19.

His 2019-20 tally was standing at 103 when the coronavirus shutdown began on April 2 and he now has another 6-1/2 months to better last season's figure.

Todd Rattray also has a big team of horses ready to go and is keenly awaiting the release of the new Sires Stake schedule.

"I've got a few three-year-olds that go all right but I'm holding off a little bit until I see when the good races are programmed," he said.

There are six Sires Stake series, each with a $50,000 final, to be rescheduled.

The first of those, the Raider Stakes and Granny Smith, were to have been run at Devonport the day that racing resumes.

Like Yole, Rattray believes there are more than enough horses in work to fill two meetings a week.

"I've got about 30 and most are ready to race," he said.

"I'm trialling seven on Saturday and another three or four on Monday."

The national feature-race calendar is also of interest to Rattray as his wife Lyrae owns star five-year-old Ignatius, trained in Sydney by his brother James.

"He's had a bit of time off but James is about to hopple him again," Rattray said.

"He'll probably be aimed at the Victoria Cup but I'm not sure when that's being run now."

Harness Racing Victoria is expected to unveil its new feature-race calendar in the next week. It has already announced that the Breeders Crown will be delayed until November and Vicbred Super Series until December.

The 2020 Inter-Dominion was to have been run on James Rattray's home track at Menangle in December but it was announced this week that the series has been postponed for 12 months.

The greyhound calendar has now been released for June and July with Launceston, Devonport and Hobart meetings all in their usual timeslots.

Some feature races have been deleted and others rescheduled.

The Illingworth Classic at Mowbray has been moved from April to August with the Tasmanian County Derby and Oaks both moved from June to September/October.