He Said She Said makes promising start for Michael Muscat ahead of Orange final

The Well Said x Far Too Rusty four-year-old lines up in this Sunday's $10,000 Watson Corporate Services Final (1,609 metres) looking at the possibility of claiming a fourth win in five starts.

He Said She Said claimed a narrow win as favourite in his heat ahead of Goodtime Hero, giving Muscat an ideal start to his time training the gelding.

He's drawn to be among the action in the final at Towac Park as he goes out from gate four.

Fellow heat winner Toya Lombo (driven by Jason Turnbull) gets the start from gate one while the most dominant heat winner, Im Desirable (Amanda Turnbull), goes out next to He Said She Said in gate five.

Muscat said it would take a big effort from He Said She Said to make it two wins in a row under his care.

"I've only had him for the one start and his form before coming to me was really good and he's been good since then. This one coming up is going to be a lot harder for him," he said.

"I think that horse Amanda Turnbull's driving is going to be the one to beat. If it gets everything its own way then it's going to be hard to stop."

Im Desirable won her heat by nearly 20 metres as she took her career record to four wins from six starts.

He Said She Said will have a change of driver. His previous reinswoman, Isobel Ross, has a drive on Lucky Ava so Doug Hewitt will step into the gig.

Muscat said there won't be a mountain of instruction for Hewitt.

"We'll just see how it plays out. Hopefully we can take a sit on the favourite," he said.

"After this he'll just go through his grades and then maybe we can try and get him into a Country Series race somewhere down the line."

The feature race of the meeting will be the Banjo Patterson Cup.

A small but classy field of six runners are taking on the $16,000 event: Experia, Maximus Red, Misterfreeze, Firestorm Red, Makoa and Ellmers Image.

Racing gets underway at Towac Park from 1.04pm.