Met heroine Oh Susanna could run next in the Victress Stakes at Kenilworth on December 15 en route to the Maine Chance Farms Paddock Stakes three weeks later. But Lady In Black, her conqueror in last week’s pinnacle stakes, is set to go straight for the Grade 1.

Justin Snaith said he was satisfied with Oh Susanna’s three-quarter length second after a five-month break and added: “She was stuck in quarantine for a month after the Durban season and she had only had one gallop. Also she always gets beaten on the short run-in – remember last year’s Western Cape Fillies Championship? I will have a look at the Victress Stakes.”

Oh Susanna (Liesl King)

After the Pinnacle Dennis Drier alluded to Lady In Black being “a different filly this year.” He explained later: “She has matured and has put on 40lb since this time 12 months ago. I don’t think she will run in the Victress, though. She will probably go for the Paddock next.”

However Brave Move, beaten just over two lengths into fourth, will be in the Victress line-up. “I was very happy with her performance,” said Adam Marcus. “The way the race was run, with a five-metre spur, everyone came middle to the outside which was not what we planned. But she ran to the line and she has come out of it exceptionally well. She goes for the Paddock and the Majorca after running in the Victress.”

Hashtagyolo, last of the seven but beaten less than four lengths in her first race for over ten months, will also be nominated for the Victress. “She is rated 105 so where else could I run her?” said Dean Kannemeyer. “We all thought we would go for an easy pinnacle last Thursday and it turned into a mini Paddock Stakes.”

Eric Sands confirms that Rainbow Bridge has come out of his Cape Mile win in good shape and that the gelding will attempt to extend his unbeaten run to six in the WSB Green Point Stakes on December 8 when the opposition may include the mighty Legal Eagle. The latter looked as good as ever when winning a sprint on his reappearance at Turffontein last Thursday.

Captainofthesea (Richard Fourie) is now 5-1 clear favourite to give Snaith his second successive win in the R2.5m CTS Ready To Run Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday. World Sports Betting yesterday pushed the badly-drawn Cirillo out half a point to 11-2 even though the Sean Tarry runner appeared to move nicely when ridden by Marcus in a gallop with a stable companion over 1 100m on the course on Saturday.

Cape Classic winner Twist Of Fate (Bernard Fayd’Herbe) pleased connections in a solo spin over 1 000m but was also eased yesterday, in his case from 6-1 to 7-1 for the Concorde Cup. The unbeaten Vaughan Marshall-trained One World (Marcus) is a warm favourite at 11-10 with Sean Tarry’s Chimichuri Run (S’Manga Khumalo) next on 11-2. Dutch Philip, second in last year’s Cape Merchants, is 4-1 favourite to go one better this time.

By Michael Clower