It will probably require a career-best effort but trainer Louise Munce would love to see her pride and joy Little Steiny complete a hat-trick at Wyong on Thursday.

Munce, who has only three horses in work, runs a boat cover business with her husband Alan. Training is very much a hobby, even more now than when Full On Magic was winning races like the Scone Cup and Rowley mile in the early 2000s.

“It’s a passion, it’s my own thing and it gets me away from the boats,” Munce said.

“I had a couple of handy horses and used to breed a few. The horses do so well here being on a farm, out at Wyong Creek, and it’s a nice environment for them.”

Seven-year-old Little Steiny broke a drought that had run for more than two years when he won first-up at Muswellbrook in mid-August. He backed it up at Gosford with another all-the-way win, so a hat-trick awaits in the Police Remembrance Day Handicap (1100m).

Munce had planned to take the gelding to Tuncurry for a race earlier this month but a setback forced her to scratch. As it turned out the second half of the meeting, including the race she had targeted, was abandoned.

She’s hoping for a bit of rain, and a couple of scratchings, to make the task easier given he’ll carry 2.5kg more than last start.

“I was quite impressed with the way he handled the 1000m at Muswellbrook and he just improved since,” Munce said.

“I’d love to get a treble with him, that’d be fantastic. He had a little setback and I gave him a bit of time off but he really races better fresh with a bit of a gap in between.”