Each has runners on the opening night of the Interdominion Carnival at Menangle on Saturday.

Stanley and Stewart are regular visitors to Sydney for feature events.

Heats of the world driving championship, NSW Derby and NSW Oaks headline this 12-race program.

Stewart is targeting the Derby and the Oaks.

She has Ideal For Real in the second of two $20,000 NSW Derby heats, 2400m.

The heat is named in honour of the Stewart-trained Major Secret, which won last year's group 1 NSW Derby.

Ideal For Real is coming off a luckless Victoria Derby campaign in which the son of American Ideal charged home late to get second in a heat and then suffered a check before finishing sixth in the final.

Like most Stewart and Stanley runners, Ideal For Real has not landed the best draw.

He has drawn seven, but will go into six if the emergency does not get a run.

The Burrumbeet-based Stanley is also hoping to get a derby heat run with his unbeaten gelding Chief Safari.

However, as the first emergency in each heat, Chief Safari needs a scratching to get a start.

The son of the Stewart-trained Safari has done everything asked of him to date, winning at Geelong and Hamilton.

Chief Safari has drawn seven and 11 in each heat on a night that Stanley and Stewart have predominantly had little luck with barriers.

Stewart's other starters are Delight Me and Lovelist in NSW Oaks heats, 2400m.

Delight Me, which is unbeaten in four starts this preparation, is drawn to have a big say in her heat from gate three, but it is not likely to be so straightforward for last-start winner Lovelist (barrier eight).

Lovelist will line up on the immediate inside of Stanley's much-travelled Soho Tokyo, who will be having her fifth start at Menangle in a 15-start career.

Stanley will also send Young Modern around in the group 2 $50,000 Paleface Adios Stakes, 1609m  - a race that offers the winner a guaranteed start in the Chariots of Fire for four-year-olds on March 1 - but he will have to deal with gate 10.

BALLARAT and District Trotting Club will again honour past key contributors to local harness racing at a twilight meeting on Sunday.

The club will have its annual memorial meeting, paying tribute to Kevin Foley, Len Fulton, Bob Freeman, Ron and Gladys Newton, Frank Britt, Eric White, Keith Bray, and Mick and Tom Mahar.

The 10-race card has been bolstered by the inclusion of the postponed group 3 $30,000 Tontine Pacers Final, 2200m. The feature event was to have been contested at Bray Raceway on Friday night, but the meeting was called off after heavy rain washed away sections of the track.

david.brehaut@fairfaxmedia.com.au