The meeting comes hard on the heels of last Saturday's highly successful Anzac Day fixture and judging by the horses that have accepted for the feature, Sunday should see high quality pacing action.

And it is fitting the Forbes Harness Racing Club has been afforded such a strong program as the hard-working committee thoroughly deserve it.

Following two exciting qualifying heats last Saturday, the Forbes Services Memorial Club Final (2060m) is the event patrons will look forward to most and the depth of the field will ensure an open market and a great race.

Despite being beaten as an odds-on favourite, Dubbo pacer The Only Child (Mat Rue) will again be fancied by punters after drawing the pole mark.

He did have a big workload in his heat and was far from disgraced when narrowly beaten by The Space Invader (Steve Turnbull).

Turnbull qualified two runners into the final with his other heat winner being Lexus On The Beach, which is the class runner yet again.

Lexus On The Beach has to contend with a barrier 10 draw but Steve is likely to take the reins on the Rod Smith-owned colt who boasts a great record that includes five wins and four placings from just 10 outings.

The Space Invader should not be underestimated in the final as he came from well back to win last week and will be prominent from a good front line draw.

There are no less than four locally owned or trained runners in the final but their chances are only slim against the top three picks.

The AGL Energy Tabcorp Park Menangle Country Series Heat (1680m) has drawn together a very classy field of up-and-coming pacers with Eugowra Canola Cup winner Holm Three (David Hewitt) making the trip up from Goulburn in the hope of qualifying for the $25,000 final to be held in southern Sydney at the end of May.

The bonny mare last saluted the judge at Wagga on April 17 in a similar race and made the trek to headquarters for the final where she was narrowly beaten in a 1.55.1 mile rating.

Her danger could be rejuvenated mare Hand For Tilly (Nathan Turnbull) who scored back to back wins at Dubbo in early April before meeting very strong opposition at Penrith and Bathurst where she acquitted herself well running fourth and second respectively.

Dubbo pacer Tommy Tuppence (Murray Sullivan) just snuck in to win on a very wet night at his home track last start and has sound claims in this, while others that should be considered include Written In Red, Attorney Stride and Barriettas Bliss.