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IT LOOMS as a big day for trainer Gai Waterhouse, who has major players in all the races at Rosehill Gardens today.

IT LOOMS as a big day for trainer Gai Waterhouse, who has major players in all the races at Rosehill Gardens today.

Emerging stayer Ecuador is racing to book himself a place in the Group 1 Metropolitan, while exciting galloper Our Desert War needs to win to gain an exemption from the Group 1 Epsom Handicap at Royal Randwick on October 5.

Star young jockey Tommy Berry will carry the bulk of Gai Waterhouse's hopes as he partners Ecuador (Kari Aboriginal Resources Handicap), Our Desert Warrior (Shannon Stakes) and Aussies Love Sport (Stan Fox Stakes).

Berry's other big-race rides include last-start Sheraco Stakes winner Driefontein in the Group 3 $250,000 Golden Pendant (1400m), Order Of The Sun is tested as a stayer in the Group 3 $200,000 Gloaming Stakes (1800m), Reuben Percival contests the Group 3 $125,000 Colin Stephen Quality (2400m) and Shahad in the Listed $100,000 Reginald Allen Quality (1400m). He also rides Knight Exemplar in the Paslode Sprint (1100m).