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By Ray Hickson

Trainer Wayne Seelin concedes an unscheduled seven week break between runs will leave Invincible Kiss a shade vulnerable as she chases a hat-trick at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.

Although Invincible Kiss had been racing since last October, with at least a couple of runs per month, Seelin was keen to capitalise on successive wins at Muswellbrook and at an ATC meeting at Hawkesbury until a foot abscess forced a pause.

The break may turn out to be a blessing, as she's proven she can sustain a long campaign, but it has left the mare giving away fitness to her rivals.

“It happens so often, just when you get them flying something happens,’’ Seelin said.

“Once they’ve had 14 starts (for the preparation), even though they’ve won two in a row, you start to think a break won’t hurt them.

“So it sort of serves two purposes when something goes wrong. I never panic over it, just wait for it to turn around again.”

So the six-year-old mare resurfaces in The Agency Real Estate Handicap (1000m) and while she’s had 45 starts so far Seelin said she’s showing all the signs of a horse enjoying her racing.

The Wyong trainer said Invincible Kiss passed the time between runs, since her Hawkesbury win on April 14 with plenty of swimming and “a couple of good gallops” and has pleased him with the work but she’s naturally a little underdone.

Invincible Kiss wins at Hawkesbury on April 14

“She’s a little bit fat but she’s got to start somewhere again because we didn’t really pull up stumps voluntarily,’’ he said.

“I’m just a little bit concerned she’s half a run short that’s all. Ability can take you a long way, even if you’re 90 per cent fit, so I expect her to race well.

“She’s just so honest, even though starting out she hated what she was doing she loves it now. That’s half the battle."

Seelin has again engaged in-form apprentice Reece Jones to reduce the mare’s impost to 57.5kg and she was a $12 chance with TAB on Tuesday.

“He’s a good kid and he has confidence, he’s very sensible and he tries hard every time,’’ he said.

Meanwhile, Seelin’s warhorse Isorich is also a little on the tubby side for his planned return at Wyong on Thursday with just one run since a month’s break under his belt.

The 10-year-old, lining up for start 133, has been in the top three in 11 of his 16 starts, for seven wins, on his home track.

“He’s been a bit fat too since the wet weather we’ve had,’’ Seelin said.

“He thrives on racing and without it he puts on weight quickly but I think I have it off him enough that if we get a nice firm track and a decent barrier to be right thereabouts again.”

All the fields, form and replays for Warwick Farm on Wednesday