10 races a possibility at first Tasmanian thoroughbred meeting since shutdown

The first meeting in the state since April 1 has attracted 190 nominations for the seven advertised races, although that figure is slightly misleading.

There are actually 138 individual horses nominated, with many of them entered for multiple races as their trainers try to maximise their chances of getting a start.

Tasracing chief executive Paul Eriksson said the meeting could have anywhere between eight and 10 races.

"We'll definitely have at least eight races - whether we go to nine or 10 we'll discuss in the next 24 hours," he said.

"We'll do some juggling to see if we can come up with the best outcome."

Eriksson said it was no surprise there was big entries for the comeback meeting.

"It's the last hurrah for Mowbray for a while and trainers are obviously keen to race on the grass while they can," he said.

"We'd expect numbers to drop off a little in July when we're back on the synthetic at Spreyton.

The second meeting on June 21 is also on the turf at Elwick, with Spreyton kicking off on June 28.

The return-to-racing plan devised by Tasracing and approved by the State Government and Public Health limits each race to 10 runners.

The four leading trainers on the premiership table - Scott Brunton, Team Wells, John Blacker and Adam Trinder - have entered nearly 50 horses between them.

The fastest class race on the program is a benchmark 74 which has attracted 16 entries including Banstead who is going for his fifth win in a row and Sarah Cotton's unbeaten four-year-old Dark Wanderer.