Punters have former Nyngan trainer Brett Robb’s Rouge Moulin as $3.20 favourite for Sunday’s $50,000 Gilgandra Cup over 1600m.

The ultra consistent horse closed off fast last start at Dubbo and has top local jockey Clayton Gallagher on board tomorrow.

Bookmakers have Warren Cotton Cup winner Tanui, which stormed home at this distance two runs back and has apprentice Shannen Llewellyn claiming 3.5kg, as second favourite on that run.

Orange trainer Alison Smith has two horses in the Cup including How's It Kev, which was placed in Sydney last run, and star trainer Chris Waller has given his rising apprentice Sienna Grima to Smith. She will ride gelding Turgenev, which has won at the mile and twice here.

Grima is also under the guidance of former premier jockey Darren Beadman in Waller's stable and is riding for him in Sydney on Saturday.

“I put the work in to get to Sydney and when I got the offer for Chris’s stable it was very exciting because I knew Darren had also joined,’’ she said.

“I saw what he’d done with Zac LLoyd. I thought if he could do anything with me like he did with Zac, and with Chris backing me, this could be unreal.

“He points things out to me that I wouldn’t have thought about.”

The other feature race, the Gilgandra Town Plate over 1100m, has Clint Lundholm trained Keadool at $3.70 favourite. He is chasing a hat trick off the back off Wellington and Dubbo wins.

Gilgandra is planning a big day with live music and fashions on the field with first race at 1.15pm. It will be hot with a 38 degree day expected.