IN-FORM Temora trainer Ray Walker hopes Roll A Dream can put together a fourth successive victory at Riverina Paceway on Tuesday night.
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Roll A Dream enjoyed a brilliant month of May, winning her only three starts to stamp herself as one of the Riverina's most promising fillies.
The three-year-old will look to make it four in a row at Wagga when she lines up from gate four in the TAB Odds & Evens NR 55 Pace (2270m).
Daryll Perrot will again partner Roll A Dream and Walker believes his filly is capable of winning again as long she gets the right luck.
"Well, it'll depend on the other drivers, I suppose. It just depends on what goes on," Walker said.
"She'll go good and they'll know she's there anyway."
Roll A Dream does not have blistering speed from the gate but has managed to lead in two of her last three wins.
Walker explained that the tempo of a race was more important to his filly's chances.
"You've got to let her roll. The harder they go, the better," he said.
"I put her in the Oaks at Young, she went her last half in 58 and got beat a mile, but the leaders went home in 56. She needs the pace on all the way. The harder they go the better it suits her.
"If she's on the bit, you're in trouble because that means they're going too slow. She's got to be struggling a bit, a couple of those races (she's won), up the back she looks gone but they run the sectional up the back real quick but then they stopped. She just runs the same speed."
With five wins and six minor placings to her name from 22 starts, Roll A Dream is building a nice overall record.
Walker has always held an opinion of her but also explained that she is one pacer that has benefited from the controversial new handicapping system.
"I always thought as a two-year-old she was a nice horse, she ran thirds, fourths, fifths. I didn't know why she couldn't win a two-year-old, I thought she'd win one for sure, then I give her a spell and she's come back and she's just put it together I suppose," he said.
"She's going good but it's a stupid system. It suits her but then you've got other horses that the system doesn't suit at all.
"She's only a (rating) 50. She can win three more and still be in a 55. It's not real fair, I don't think, but that's just showing the system how it suits one horse, and then you've got a horse like Red, he's only had a couple of starts, won two, and he's heaps higher graded than her.
"Any horse you get that's a nice horse that's four-year-old and up, you win a couple and you're nearly in the fast class. It's not fair on them, really. But that's what we've got and we've got to play the system."
Walker will also be represented by three other pacers on the six-race TAB card.
Artisticone hails from the same family as Walker's former top-liner Imastrongone and will have her second start in the L & D Bowling Club Maiden Pace (1740m). She has drawn ideally in gate two.
"She's handy. She's only had the one trial and one race but she'll be there with them," Walker said.
"She'll win a couple. I don't know whether she can lead or not. We'll go around and see what happens.
"She'll definitely win races. She's only a three-year-old filly. She works with them others, I'm not saying she can beat them all but she works with them. They're all working together."
Funnily Enough will contest the Yenda Prods NR 47 Pace (1740m) and while concerned about barrier seven, Walker believes he is nearing another win soon.
"His numbers are getting back somewhere near it but we're drawn out a bit wide," he said.
"I wouldn't be saying he couldn't win it but the draw makes it a bit tough."
Shanks For Coming, owned by his daughter Steph, rounds out Walker's team in the Lanhams Jewellers NR55 Pace (2270m).
"He's a work in progress."
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