Brett Cavanough said there was no chance of him relocating back to Queensland after a potential move to take over the care of horses from embattled Toowoomba trainer Ben Currie fell through on the weekend.
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Currie was barred last week from nominating horses for races and on Saturday applied to Racing Queensland to have his team transferred to Cavanough's care after being found guilty of two charges of bringing racing into disrepute.
Cavanough, who was based in Albury then Toowoomba before moving to Scone in April 2017, told Racing Queensland on Sunday that he would not be taking on Currie's horses.
A family friend of the Curries, Cavanough said owners of Currie-trained horses wanted him to step in "but it got too tricky".
On Monday, AAP reported that Queensland Racing chief steward Peter Chadwick said permission had been given for 26 horses from Currie's stable to be transferred.
"We will treat applications to move horses on a case-by-case basis," Chadwick said.
Horses had been transferred to Lindsay Hatch, Les Ross, Alyssa Ross, Tony Gollan and Cameron Bond. Currie has nearly 100 horses and more applications are expected. Currie faces a further 40 allegations.
** Scone CEO Heath Courtney was pleased on Monday with nominations for the club's carnival.
The Cup meeting this Friday attracted 211 nominations and Saturday's stand-alone card had 206.
Courtney said all signs were pointing to a bumper carnival.
"The track will be in amazing condition," Courtney said.
"We had another 20 mils on Saturday and it will likely just get back to the good range by Friday, and on Saturday it will be at the peak of its powers.
"The rail will be in the true position so we'd like to think it will be ideal for open racing."
He said reserved function areas were almost sold out for the two-day carnival.
Godolphin's 2017 champion Duca Valentinois, which was second last year, was among nominations for the Scone Cup.
