Like a flashing blue light on a dark desert highway for punters, new Class 2 sprinter Somerton Sniper beat Group and Listed mare Opal Ridge in a recent Tamworth trial and then was dominant winning on his home track.

Danielle Seib - a TAB Highway specialist - is value as adverse circumstances suggest three favoured placegetters from a recent Newcastle episode, Tanglewood ($3.90 favourite on TAB), Ramones ($10) and Zanardee’s Lane ($14) are little hope of staging an action replay at Royal Randwick on Saturday.

Mandy Cottell and Mathew Toogood look back on the 10-race program at Randwick and bring you the talking points of the undercard.