Seven-year-old Mind Your Head will be aimed at the feature summer sprints after trainer John Ledger blamed himself for the seven-year-old's failed spring campaign.Ledger was planning a first-up assault with Mind Your Head on the Listed Christmas Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on Boxing Day but has brought forward his campaign to Saturday's Highpoint Handicap (1200m) at Flemington.Ledger said the signs this campaign were positive after he reverted to a normal training routine with Mind Your Head thi

Seven-year-old Mind Your Head will be aimed at the feature summer sprints after trainer John Ledger blamed himself for the seven-year-old's failed spring campaign.

Ledger was planning a first-up assault with Mind Your Head on the Listed Christmas Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on Boxing Day but has brought forward his campaign to Saturday's Highpoint Handicap (1200m) at Flemington.

Ledger said the signs this campaign were positive after he reverted to a normal training routine with Mind Your Head this preparation.

He said that last campaign he made the mistake of pouring too much work into the sprinter which contributed to him finishing last in both the Listed Monash Stakes in July and Group Three Bletchingly Stakes in August.

"I think it was trainer error and I think that will be vindicated in the next month or so," Ledger said.

"Last spring I thought he was better than he had ever been and I lifted his work rate which took the edge right off him.

"I thought we would go and chase cattle with him and with the stock being on pretty hilly country he probably felt his joints a bit as well.

"This time we have gone back to how we normally train him, swimming him and giving him one sprint every now and then, and he's going really well."

Ledger said a narrow trial win over Jeuneyman at Benalla, when ridden by regular jockey Mark Pegus, was the best indication that Mind Your Head was on track for a big summer.

"His trial was fabulous," Ledger said.

"He was up against a nice group of sprinters and he put three or four lengths on them on the corner before Mark stood up on him and let him canter to the line."

Ledger said Mind Your Head still wasn't at his peak for Saturday but expects him to run well.

"If he wins it will be a bonus that I will welcome," Ledger said.

He said his main goal was trying to win the Christmas Stakes for the second time after landing the feature a year ago.

Mind Your Head also won the Group Three weight-for-age Rubiton Stakes (1100m) in January but on Thursday the Melbourne Racing Club announced that the Rubiton would be a set weight and penalty race and rescheduled to Orr Stakes day in early February.

The Listed Doveton Stakes (1100m), run under handicap conditions, will replace the Rubiton Stakes on January 9 and become another target for Mind Your Head who has won eight of his 29 starts.

"Last summer was really exciting and we had a great run with him so we are looking forward to it again," Ledger said.