It is one of the best weeks on the calendar for the Geran stable with their home track taking centre stage hosting the Toowoomba Cup and time-honoured Weetwood Handicap.
Taking home the coveted Cup would be a dream come true for Kylie as she looks to etch her name in the history books next to her aunt and former trainer Carmel Richardson.
Training alongside her father Les Richardson, Carmel landed the 1981 and 1982 Cups with Odd Spot.
She then became the first woman to complete the Toowoomba Cup-Weetwood double with Tod Minor and Lord Woden in 1985
It is coveted family history that is not lost on Team Geran.
“Weeks like these is what we sort of work for all year round when you are getting up to your top-level races,” Kylie said.
“More important for me because it’s a family tradition – my aunty’s won the Weetwood and Toowoomba Cups and it just makes you proud to be able to have runners.
“It’d be very emotional, but the Cup is just something that I think we will all dream to win.
“It’s a hard race to win but it’d be very special.”
The day’s significance also hits home for the junior Geran, with the prospect of a hometown victory providing plenty of encouragement.
“It’s always a really good week up here, something we look forward to sort of every year,” Corey said.
“The Weetwood and Toowoomba Cup have been races that we target – they’re obviously hard to win, but being in your hometown is always going to be something that you want to achieve.
“We’ve been trying and we’ve had runners in the Toowoomba Cup for the last four years consecutively now and we’ve been runner up the last two.
“Winning cups has always been a bit of a thrill for me and thrill for us, and the hometown Cup is one we’re yet to check off, so it would mean a lot.”