[Vikesrock]

I would recommend you try wiring it to a Spike first. It sounds like you only need the Forward/Reverse/Off control a Spike provides. If you hook it up and find that you want to vary the speed or use a speed slower than the Spike allows, you can wire it up to a Victor instead.

For an application like this the advantages of the Jaguar (limit switches and linearity) are probably not critical and a Victor should work fine if you have better uses for either the space or the money or both.