SHE has been unlucky with her barrier draws, but when it comes to Saturday night's Group 2 Changeover South East Oaks driver Anthony Frisby hopes Jenden Strike can find luck in the running.
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The three-year-old filly trained in Bathurst by Chris Frisby will go from barrier 10 in the $50,660 feature at Albion Park.
It's not ideal, but something Anthony Frisby is used to when it comes to Jenden Strike.
"She's been lucky with us," Frisby chuckled.
"She's never had a good draw, but she'll hopefully come out behind a couple of nice horses on the front.
"Poor thing, she never good a got draw at all last year. She always went tremendous, she just needs to draw inside a good horse and they'll know she's in it for sure."
Saturday's Oaks will be Jenden Strike's second run at Albion Park since heading north, having placed third there on July 3. While Frisby was not in the gig for that race, he was impressed with the effort as she came from one out and two back on the bell to finish 3.3m behind victor Dattitude.
"There's one in there [Jiggle And Jive] they had big raps on, it sat in the death seat, and she beat him pretty easy. They've got real big raps on him up here, so we were real happy with her, her last half was real slick as well and first up over the 2,100," he said.
"She pulled up a treat and we're very, very happy with her. Hopefully she's fit enough, cross your fingers, and with a bit of luck she'll be right in it."
Jenden Strike did not get luck in running when placing 12th in the Victorian Oaks and sixth in the New South Wales Oaks last season, but she did manage to win this year's Young Oaks from barrier 10. Frisby also feels the distance of Saturday's feature - to be run over 2,138 metres - may help to negate some of the impact of the tricky barrier.
"It doesn't matter as much over the longer distance, you can sort of play it by ear. If they are going terribly hard you can put her in the race at some stage, it gives you a bit of time," he said.
"It can work out great, there could be a hell of a lot of speed off the front and it could suit the backmarkers or whatnot."
The race starts at 7.40pm.