Rolamax will be on a mission to make it back-to-back wins for his Tamworth trainer Neil Kliendienst at the Paceway on Thursday afternoon.
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Courtney Sutherland has been engaged once again to take the reins behind the six-year-old gelding.
They will contest the Piper Street Veterinary Clinic Pace from the eight barrier (the same barrier that Rolamax won from last week) over 1609 metres.
"He loves the mile," said Sutherland. "It was a super run last week.
"He felt good in the race. I thought I had the field covered the entire race."
With Ghost Gum (Lola Weidemann) leading the field Sutherland had Rolamax racing three back on the outside running line. That was until the field was 400m from home, when she elected to make her move.
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"When I pulled him out, I knew it was all over," Sutherland said on returning to scale.
Rolamax went on for a four-metre win over Penny A Packet (Stacey Weidemann), with Kissofdeath (Tom Ison) another metre away in third place.
On Thursday, Rolamax will come up against another last-start Tamworth winner, in Joey Tee from the Richard Williams stables.
Joey Tee notched an all-the-way win on debut for the stables, having returned to the North West after a campaign in Sydney.
Joey Tee finished seventh in all four of his Sydney starts.
"They are always tougher when they come home from Sydney, and he found the lead quite easy [last week]," said reinsman Dean Chapple.
"He loves the lead."
Starting from barrier two, Joey Tee finished 12m ahead of Scotlynn Jiggs (Scotty-Jon Welsh).
He has drawn barrier 10 for Thursday's race, with Chapple taking the reigns again.
Chapple drove three winners at Tamworth last week including Onahi Delight, from the Tony Missen stables, and Kudos Bert, from his own stables. For the Kudos Bert, it was back-to back wins.
Chapple leads the drivers premiership on 23 points. Lola Weidemann and Maitland reinsman Brad Elder are joint second on 19 points.
