He’s been plagued by numerous leg injuries throughout an interrupted career but the troublesome gelding, trained and owned by Bathurst’s Peter Trevor-Jones, arrives at his home track meeting on Wednesday chasing a third straight win.

It’s been four years since Ominous Warning has found himself in a similar position.

You have to go back to his NSW Breeders Challenge run – during a stellar two-year-old season within the Luke and Belinda McCarthy stable – to see Ominous Warning achieve a hat-trick.

On Wednesday night he’ll be one of the leading contenders in the GC33 Yearling Payments Due July 31 Pace (1730 metres).

Trevor-Jones said half the battle with Ominous Warning isn’t just keeping his legs in check, but also his head.

“He was a bit of a nutcase but raced well with Luke and Belinda McCarthy. I brought him back as a three-year-old and then he got a little tendon injury so I gave him 12 months off,” he said.

“I brought him back, got him going, then he got a tendon injury in his other leg.

“He had an issue at Goulburn a while ago and that was on his back leg. He’d done stuff to his front legs before so he decided he’d do something a bit different.

“We’re soldering on and every run’s a bonus now. We try and manage it as best we can. This is the first time we’ve had three straight runs out of him since he was a two-year-old.”

Because of that interrupted career Ominous Warning has just 18 starts to his name since 2014.

Those races include eight wins and four minor placings.

His latest victory came at Bankstown a fortnight ago in an usually-run race.

Ominous Warning sat behind leader Sheiswatching who was driven at a painstakingly slow 66-second opening half.

The pace didn’t do much to keep Ominous Warning – a horse easily agitated at the best of times – from throwing his head around.

When a gap opened up on the run for home Trevor-Jones’ runner refocused and showed a nice turn of foot to run down the leader by a neck.

“That race was heart attack material,” Trevor-Jones laughed.

“Blake Fitzpatrick, being a canny driver, took the opportunity to box us in behind the leader and let the leader run 32, 34, 32 while our horse is sitting in a pocket going crazy.

“He’d only had 17 starts before that race and not once had he been boxed in behind a leader. Even though he’s six years old he’s not been in a lot of race scenarios that a lot of other horse have.

“It was a long trip to Bankstown and would have felt longer had he not won.”

Bathurst’s six race meeting starts from 5.14pm.