Talented sprinter Mind Your Head is set to give Wangaratta trainer John Ledger his second Christmas Stakes win in three years.The much-maligned six-year-old avoided the spring horses with an extended spell and will be at his peak for the Boxing Day feature race at Caulfield which Ledger first won with Soleil in 2006.Mind Your Head is primed for the Christmas Stakes after an easy barrier trial win at Benalla and an impressive first-up win by more than a length on his home track on December 16."Fo

Talented sprinter Mind Your Head is set to give Wangaratta trainer John Ledger his second Christmas Stakes win in three years.

The much-maligned six-year-old avoided the spring horses with an extended spell and will be at his peak for the Boxing Day feature race at Caulfield which Ledger first won with Soleil in 2006.

Mind Your Head is primed for the Christmas Stakes after an easy barrier trial win at Benalla and an impressive first-up win by more than a length on his home track on December 16.

"For several months the main aim has been the Christmas Stakes and with that in mind we gave him a just one trial and used a race to get him ready for Friday," Ledger said.

"He (Mind Your Head) is a class act and I have never had him looking better. He is awesome.

"He only has to draw a gate and he will roll forward and be very hard to beat."

Ledger got a guide with Soleil about what was needed to win a Christmas Stakes and Mind Your Head was her former track companion.

"He is much more brilliant than Soleil," Ledger said.

"They used to work together and while she was a good mare he had a touch on her every time."

A stakes winner and twice stakes-placed, Mind Your Head has been a troublesome horse for much of his career, proving difficult to ride and gaining a reputation for being a barrier rogue.

But Ledger said the gelding was not a bad horse and that the issues he had in the past may have been a result of fetlock pain.

"He had a bit of trouble with the cartilages in his fetlocks and when they get overworked and aggravated they make him a little unhappy," Ledger said.

"That is why we gave him so long off and missed the spring on purpose."

"The Christmas Stakes is a step down and the extra months in the paddock have done him good.

"We think we have monitored his problems really well this preparation and I think his trial and his race performance the other day proved that."

Dale Smith rode Mind Your Head last start but he is required for the Mick Price-trained El Mandon, opening the way for Mark Pegus to reunite with the horse after riding him in most of his 23 starts.