The Hunter apprentice makes her comeback with one mount at the track where she last rode in a race in May last year before back problems forced her to rest.

Clenton then had surgery to shave a disc and remove metal used to stablise her spine following a horror fall, also at Scone, in 2016 in which she fractured several vertebrae.

She had hoped to be back riding late last year but a post-surgery infection delayed her comeback. Clenton was now easing her way back into racing as she regained fitness.

"I'm back tomorrow obviously but I'm still riding heavy," Clenton said on Monday. "I've still got a long way to go with my weight but I think that raceday pressure will help bring it along more.

"It's a long road back with fitness. You don't realise how fit you have to be to do this.

"I've been doing trackwork since December but my fitness is still coming, but last week I did trials at Muswellbrook and I had a good hit-out. I felt buggered by the end of it and I needed something like that to go forward to raceday."

She said her back was holding up well to trackwork.

"It's pretty good," she said.

"It cringes here and there but I always forget that it wasn't a little operation.

"I've still got a way to go to build the muscle back up but it's been really good the last 10 days, which is the biggest key for me.

"Hopefully it keeps going and obviously I'll know more after I pull up after tomorrow. Fingers crossed."

Clenton has secured a genuine winning chance for her return. The Rod Ollerton-trained Safaris, a $2.40 TAB favourite in the 1000m benchmark 58 handicap, won first-up at Tamworth on January 30 after more than two years out with injury.

"I went up to Tuncurry and trialed him for Rod," Clenton said. "He had a long lay-off. He did a tendon and I think he re-injured it when he came back so he had to have more time off.

"I said to Rod to find one of those 58, 1000s for him and if he wins, he wins, but use it as a second barrier trial. Then he came out and won, which was good.

"He's got ability and he has form around Stella Sea Sun and Hit The Target."

Ollerton was a winner at Muswellbrook on Monday with Two Ducks Artie.

The seven-year-old gelding, second-up after a fifth at Scone, was last in the early stages of the benchmark 58 handicap (1280m) but was taken through the field by Christian Reith before powering to a two-length win for the Newcastle trainer.

"He's generally always run a good race and he's won a couple and placed a couple of times, so he's done a good job," Ollerton told Sky Thoroughbred Central.

"I thought he found the right race today. He was weighted fairly well compared to some of the others and his first-up run was very good."

It was part of a double for Reith, who lifted Jason Deamer's War Cat to a tight win in the class 2 handicap.