However there is a twist.

The MIA Breeders Plate will again feature on Leeton's card for Boxing Day but there won't be one later this year.

With changes to the harness racing season introduced in September, the group three feature will undergo a radical change.

Instead of being the first big two-year-old race of the season it will now be one of the last with the final to be held on December 26.

Competitors will officially turn three on January 1.

With this year's MIA Breeders Plate won by The Kew Legend in January there will not be another edition of the race this December.

Instead the next running will be in 14 months time with heats to be held next December.

Leeton secretary Joanne Punch hopes the move will work for the club.

"Everyone still wanted a two-year-old race on that Boxing (Day) night so this way we can have that," Punch said.

"Plus we still have our Carnival Of Cups on January 1."

However Punch confirmed there will still be another two-year-old race series programmed later this year.

"As we have already had the Breeders Plate this year we are trying to get it into the pattern," she said.

"The two-year-olds have been extended until December so we are just going to have a classic two-year-old heat and a final.

"It will be run on the same concept but this year is not going to be a Breeders Plate and it will start from next year.

"It will be a trial for everyone."

Low numbers have plagued the feature race in recent years.

Punch hopes the dramatic change can help reinvigorate it.

"We can only try to keep it going," she said.

"We thought if we came back to the first of January no one would have started and you would have had to have a straight out race.

"You don't know whether you would get enough or if the ones who always try would be balloted out and you don't want to hear that.

"This way having the heats and final is the better option."

Traditionally heats of the Breeders Plate were run on Boxing Day with the final on New Year's Day.

Changes to the two-year-old season saw the time-honoured feature move to later in January when Major Roll took out the race for Stephen Maguire in 2018.

With the new changes Punch expects it will make for a stronger carnival.

"On Boxing night we will have the final of the Breeders Plate and will have the heats of all our other races that will go into the finals on January 1," she said.

"Hopefully it will work out and we can only try it."