OLIVIA Frisby has the chance to score the biggest win of her young driving career on Friday when she travels to take father Nigel's runner Reason To Party around in the feature Dubbo Show Series Final (2,120 metres).
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Having only started her driving career in October, Frisby has managed to score herself three victories - and two of them belong to Reason To Party.
Frisby will be aiming to deliver Reason To Party his third win on the trot following on from recent successes at Penrith and Bathurst.
The Bathurst driver's first taste of glory was one to remember.
Frisby and Four For The Road blew their rivals off the track during a Parkes meeting in November.
Reason To Party then got Frisby back in the winner's circle in April and May with two hard fought victories.
With a great draw in gate two for Friday's final Frisby's hopeful Reason To Party can be right in the mix and complete his hat-trick of wins.
"He's a special horse to us. Dad bred him and he's been going really good," she said.
"The first win at Penrith we were pretty happy with. He had a great draw. The favourite worried us a bit but he ended up galloping so that helped us out.
"He really surprised us there because we didn't know he had that much gate speed. His last start was even better.
"We'll have a try for the lead here. The one [Nicky Brook] will probably try to hand up to the favourite [Oh One Job] but if we can punch through and beat them out I'll try and hold, but if there's too much early then I'll just grab hold and hopefully get cover."
Reason To Party will hold a special place with the Frisby family as the only foal born out of former Breeders Challenge finalist Shes So Foxy before her death.
Racing at Dubbo will get underway from 5.49pm with the final being the fourth race on the schedule at 7.14pm.
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