MELBOURNE - Cranbourne trainer Doug Harrison has started the year well with eight winners in January and is hoping to keep the ball rolling with the in-form Skitter at Sandown today.
Skitter is going for her fourth-straight win when she comes to town for the first time for the Patinack Farm Hcp (1200m) following victories at Stony Creek, Cranbourne and Geelong last month.
``This is what we should be doing. It's taken a while but I've just got the horses up and running now,'' Harrison said.
``You need to have them coming through and it's been really good.
``They've just been going around the bush mainly. I'm getting a nice little team together.''
Harrison has engaged in-form apprentice Katelyn Mallyon for her first race ride aboard Skitter, who likes to lead and has drawn well in barrier one in the 11-horse field.
Mallyon's three-kilogram metropolitan allowance brings the mare in with 55.5kg, 1.5kg above the limit weight.
Skitter, a four-year-old by Stravinsky out of the Marscay mare Almaz, is from the same family as WATC Sires' Produce Stakes winner Sanhedrin's Pride, Ipswich Eye Liner Stakes winner Rancho Miss and SAJC Liz Davenport Classic winner Calming.
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