Placing stakeswinning stayer Light Vision has become a headache for trainer Robert Smerdon.Smerdon said the six-year-old, who at last start finished third to Hissing Sid in the Warrnambool Cup, was "in limbo" as he tried to find winnable winter races for him.Light Vision will line up in Saturday's Responsible Gambling Cup (2000m) at Caulfield, but has paid the price for his 11 wins and 12 placings in 45 starts which have netted connections nearly $660,000.A dual stakeswinner, he has also been pl

Placing stakeswinning stayer Light Vision has become a headache for trainer Robert Smerdon.

Smerdon said the six-year-old, who at last start finished third to Hissing Sid in the Warrnambool Cup, was "in limbo" as he tried to find winnable winter races for him.

Light Vision will line up in Saturday's Responsible Gambling Cup (2000m) at Caulfield, but has paid the price for his 11 wins and 12 placings in 45 starts which have netted connections nearly $660,000.

A dual stakeswinner, he has also been placed another eight times in Group and Listed races and at this time of the year being topweight has become a common theme for him.

On Saturday, he was assigned 59.5kg but gets some relief after the three-kilo claim for apprentice Jack Hill.

Smerdon said Light Vision's best form was probably behind him and that as he gets older it would be harder for him to maintain form with big weights.

"It is an awkward time for him," Smerdon said. "He's sort of in limbo.

"Races he would be competitive in he's weighted out of and the races where he is weighted reasonably well they are too tough."

Smerdon said Hill would give Light Vision every chance of notching his 12th win but stepping up to 2500 metres at Flemington in two weeks for the second heat of the Banjo Paterson series would not afford the gelding the luxury of a claim for an apprentice rider.

"It makes it hard," Smerdon said. "He will run Saturday and then at Flemington and then we will have to see where we go from there."

Light Vision was given a smarten up last Monday when he won a Cranbourne barrier trial over 1550 metres and is among the main chances at $8.50 with TAB Sportsbet in a open betting race on Saturday.

The Darren Weir-trained Oak Heart is $5 favourite to add to his last-start win at Flemington over 2000 metres just ahead of the talented Mick Price-trained mare Vivid Vixen ($5.50) who is chasing her fourth win a row.

Vivid Vixen's stablemate Old Jock is also fancied at $7.50 while former New Zealander Zoomin is just ahead of him at $7.