One of Canberra’s leading stables is eyeing off an early double strike for the same sire-line at Monday’s Wagga meeting.

Aiming to snap a somewhat frustrating start to spring, the Luke Pepper yard heads to the Riverina confident a strategic country placement can pay big dividends for a pair of progressive four-year-old mares.

Racing returns to Wagga Wagga on Monday. Credit: Jenny Evans

With only three winners since early August, the stable can turn things around early on the eight-race program destined to be run on a good-rated surface.

The first of those comes in the second race, with progressive mare The Eyes Have It tackling a Maiden Plate over 1200m.

An improving daughter of Brutal, The Eyes Have It will be having her third run for the Pepper stable since transferring down fro

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