Roll With Tricky will be looking to make it three wins on the trot when the mare contests the Welcome Sunny Varga & Samuel Grima Ladyship Pace over 1980 metres at the Tamworth Paceway on Thursday afternoon.
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The Tamworth Harness Racing Club will showcase a massive 11-race programme, with the opening event the first two-year-old race for the season.
Roll With Tricky comes into the Ladyship Pace off a last-start win at Newcastle on Saturday night, with a mile rate of one minute 56.8 seconds for 1609 metres. She will will be taking a step up in race distance on Thursday.
"I think that was her second-best race time and she raced out in the breeze the whole way - it was a good win," said Sam Ison, Roll With Ricky's Tamworth-based trainer and reinsman.
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Roll With Tricky is raced by Ison's partner Naomi Newman, who is gaining a lot of joy out of her first pacer.
"Naomi is loving it," Ison said. "She was almost crying when we won at Newcastle."
The Newcastle run saw a tough effort from Roll With Tricky, who went stride for stride with race leader Final River (Andrew Bourke) before coming away for a 1.4m win over Platinum Penny (Jake Hughes). Classy Trim (Blake Hughes) was another 2.7m away in third place.
Roll With Tricky notched her second sub two-minute career win, after recording 1.59.6 over the same distance at Tamworth in February.
Roll With Tricky, a five-year-old, is proving that she is a consistent horse - with 45 lifetime starts and a prize purse of nearly $30,000. Ison is showing some good management in the mare's career.
"We brought her (Roll With Tricky) back in March 2018, gave her about half a dozen starts and she did a tendon," he said.
"We put her in the paddock and slowly took our time working her back up.
"I only brought her back into work in December, mainly as a travel companion for Bassey."
Roll With Tricky has had a sterling season, with 29 race starts for four wins and 10 placings and $26,265 in prize money.
"She has always been up there in her runs," Ison said. "In her last 12 starts, she hasn't finished worse than fifth."
On Thursday, Roll with Tricky will commence from the five barrier. Ison is feeling confident that the mare will accomplish her third win on the trot.
"When she raced over the 1980m before, she started from the two barrier and led and won, so she should go all right."
Ison believes that Gotta Rush (barrier three) from the Sarah Rushbrook stables as the main danger. Gotta Rush had her last race start at Newcastle, finishing second by half a head to Can't Explain It (Jake Hughes).
