It is the second time the weather has threatened the Uardry Bough Shed Cup this year, after 75 millimetres fell in a few hours in February leaving the race track and surrounds a quagmire forcing officials to cancel the race meet for the first time in its 127-year history.

Around 20mm is predicted to fall at the track in the lead up to the event, but Armstrong assured race goers that unless that forecast is grossly undervalued, the meeting will go ahead as scheduled.

"We can't do too much about it (the rain) but hopefully it won't be that much, but that last time we got more than 50mm, but I reckon we're too far south to get too much rain," he said.

Armstrong, with tongue firmly-planted-in-cheek, then said he would try any method to keep Mother Nature from intervening in the biggest social event of the year for the tiny town.

"It's a bit like all of these storm patterns it might be patchy and miss us, and I might take a rain gauge down there and set it up so it makes sure the rain misses the track," he said.

"We've got the track into the car park graded and we've solved that problem and the the actual racetrack itself has been graded and rolled, so that should mean that sheds the water off pretty well.

"All of the other things, like the food and drink is right and what's why we tried a bit harder to make sure we can do it this weekend because it's the same old story, it's the once a year event for some of these small community groups to get a bit out of it, because it's pretty tough the other nine months out of it."

Nominations for the feature race have already began to flood in with the Brett Cavanough-trained Chief Chargingbear and Melody Keegan-trained Roanoke leading the charge for bookies' favouritism.