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Wyong trainer Kim Waugh is planning a four-horse assault on The Provincial Championships which starts with the first $100,000 heat over 1350m on her home track on March 5.

Waugh’s four-horse assault will be led by Oxford Poet after he resumed from a lengthy break to win at Rosehill last Saturday.

Waugh is planning to give Oxford Poet another start in Sydney before the Wyong heat.

Heats of the new series will be run at each of the five provincial tracks with the first three from each heat qualifying for the $300,000 final at Randwick on April 11.

Oxford Poet will be one of possibly two runners Waugh will have in the Wyong heat with Supreme Effor also a chance to start.

“I am still working out their programs,” she said.

Supreme Effort won the Malcom Cusick Stakes at Gosford last month at his second run back from a spell then ran fourth at Canterbury.

Waugh’s other contenders, likely to run in heats at other tracks, are No Bad Blood and Recife Beach/

No Bad Blod resumed with a close second at Canterbury while Recife Beach has had one start from a spell for a sixth at Wyong.

“We are targeting this series with four horses and it would be fantastic to have one of them qualify for the final,” Waugh said.

“All four of my horses have recently resumed and in the case of Oxford Poet he has come back from a lengthy break.

“He is a big boy who hurt the ligaments in a shoulder in the race at Rosehill last June. The long break not only mended the injury but did him the world of good.

“We have been patient with him and taken him along slowly because he is such a big horse.”