Greyville (Poly/Night) Friday December 23 Race Previews by Warren Lenferna

Race 1
Preview: With no disrespect to anyone in this race, it has to be one of the weakest maidens to go to post. BRAVE KNIGHT gets Marcus and an okay draw. He shows speed and to put it rather bluntly, if he cannot win tonight – he will battle! ROYAL BODYGUARD was not far off last time and can go very close once again as he is not taking on much but he is very well tried. The rest – get out that crystal ball! (Warren Lenferna 1-3-7-9)

Race 2
Preview: The second race on the card is just as weak as the first and Anton Marcus seems to have selected the right rides in these two races. APHRODEITY’S RAIN despite the wide draw looks very hard to beat here. DAMALI ran well last time and should do so again. BLUE JASMINE and BEAU VAR can finish in the first four. (Warren Lenferna 8-1-3-2)

Race 3
Preview: CAPTAIN ELLIO has done well in KZN and ran second last time to Lucky Barb – that form should be good enough in this field to see him go one better tonight. He is the confident first choice. SUPPER GUPPY is way better than her last run suggests and if reproducing and improving on her penultimate effort should be right there at the finish again – ignore her last run. ROY’S POWER comes from an inform trainer / owner combination and he is seldom far off the action. KEPT SECRET could pop up. (Warren Lenferna 2-9-10-3)

Race 4
Preview: LA DI VAR will get help again with an apprentice claim – Serino Moodley has done well on her and she looks ready to win again. ALL TRUE MAN (Marcus) is better than his last run and has a chance. ROMAN SOCIETY and RED APACHE have quartet chances in a field where pretty much anything could happen. (Warren Lenferna 3-6-9-5)

Race 5
Preview: ICY SPIRIT has to overcome the draw – if doing so, she should be hard to beat as her form is good and she won her penultimate start impressively. BRAVE AND BOLD is very consistent and her chances of going close look very bright. WELL DRESSED ran a cracker last time behind Roy’s Rakara and has a chance tonight. CAROLINE’S CALL has been catching the eye recently and she has a strong chance4 here with in form Alec Forbes in the saddle. (Warren Lenferna 4-3-5-11)

Race 6
Preview: SOVEREIGN REIGN ran an excellent race last time and looks cherry ripe to go one better and score his fourth career win. MAGICAL BET won a good race last time beating a tough field – if he had to follow up it would be no shock at all. TROPICAL’S SON and BIZJET can fight out the minor money and must be included in the quartet. (Warren Lenferna 1-5-8-2)

Race 7
Preview: Trainer Belinda Impey is doing exceptionally well with MUSIC WORLD. She ran a great race last time in a tough field and has proven she has ability. She goes 2000m tonight and I am sure this will be no problem. She has shown she goes on both turf and poly and has been selected with some confidence to win this race and record her fourth career win. LITTLE CHAPEL won the race where Music World ran fourth in and again there should not be too much between the two. Little Chapel is a big runner and danger. JET INTOMBI and PEACE AGAIN are worth having a close look at for the minor money positions. (Warren Lenferna 4-2-3-6)

Race 8
Preview: The way CRYSTAL BALL was closing in hand over fist last time to finish fourth behind stable companion Madame Excess (whom runs / ran on Wednesday) – she should be a very hard horse to beat over tonight’s 2000m trip that she tries for the first time. If she stays she should win! ROY’S PONY ran well last time and her chances look bright here. SPANISH LADY is coming to hand steadily and from the good draw should be able to go very close tonight and help add some value to the quartet. UNDER THE ROSE showed last time that her penultimate run was all wrong and she deserves her place in the quartet tonight but they will all have to run some to beat Crystal Ball if she sees the distance and takes to the surface! (Warren Lenferna 2-6-3-4)

Visiting South African apprentice Callan Murray rode Strictly Legit to victory in a maiden race at Mornington on Tuesday landing a winner at just his fourth race ride in Australia.

Indentured to South African trainer Mike De Kock, Murray is having a stint in Australia before becoming a fully-fledged jockey.

Last season’s champion apprentice in South Africa, Murray had two rides at Flemington last Saturday, finishing a close second aboard La Speciale.

“I’m really excited to get on the board here,” Murray told broadcasterRacing.com.

“The hospitality has been great from Lindsay Park and I’m really grateful for their support.”

Mikedekockracing.com confirm that Murray booted home his second winner with Barjeel in a Plated race over 1400m yesterday for Sheikh Hamdan’s Shadwell Australasia. Callan commented: “I’ve won in these colours back home, thanks to Sheikh Hamdan and Angus Gold. Racing in Australia is great, I’ve had some good opportunities from Lindsay Park, my part has been easy.”

Whisky Baron has been promoted to 8-1 third favourite for the Sun Met after making short work of the opposition in the 1 800m Allowance Plate at Kenilworth yesterday.

He was previously as big as 15-1 but the Australian-bred quickly put daylight between himself and the rest after Greg Cheyne sent him on two furlongs out – and he looked value for more than the length and three-quarters he finished in front of Macduff.

Greg Cheyne (Liesl King)

Cheyne said: “The pace was fair – it wasn’t the crawl that I thought it might be – but his turn of foot is amazing.”

Brett Crawford has an open mind about immediate plans and explained: “The L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate (January 7) is an option but he can only get 3kg for winning this so he could go for  the Peninsula Handicap on the same day. I will discuss it with the owners.”

The four-year-old has won all three starts since being gelded and seemingly the operation has had a marked effect with the trainer explaining: “He used to be a big burly horse but he is now much more athletic.”

Brazuca, weak in the market – he drifted from odds-on on Monday to 7-2, faded to finish with only one behind him after making much of the running but rider Randall Simons reported: “He hung out and he needed the run badly. He will come on a lot from this.”

Betting World marked him out from 22-1 to 33-1 for the Met but Macduff, a rather insulting 500-1 before the race, is now down to 150-1. However you can still get 100-1 about Mambo Mime despite his pleasing Dean Kannemeyer by finishing third.

Kannemeyer said: “He deserves a crack at the Met and I’m now looking to nominate him for the Queen’s Plate. He ran a nice race here despite being big and blowing hard afterwards.”

The handicappers have given the first two in last Saturday’s Grand Parade Cape Guineas a hefty hike. William Longsword has been raised 5kg to a new rating of 109 while Gold Standard, beaten only half a length, has gone from 96 to 108. However third-placed Table Bay has been dropped a kilo to 106. As he was over three lengths away, the assessors obviously feel he is capable of better.

By Michael Clower

Whisky Baron takes on fellow Sun Met entry Brazuca in a fascinating clash in the Allowance Plate at Kenilworth today when four of the six runners are in next month’s R5 million showpiece.

Brazuca, second in last season’s Cape Guineas, Cape Derby and SA Classic plus third in the Premiers Champions Challenge, is a class act and the obvious choice yet he is a bigger price for the Met (22-1) than the Baron who is a short as 12-1 with some layers after being backed in the last few days.

Brazuca (Nkosi Hlophe)

Johan Janse van Vuuren has followed a similar procedure to last season when he sent the colt to Brett Crawford to complete his big race preparation and this time Brazuca travelled from Johannesburg shortly after making a winning reappearance at the Vaal last month. The plan is the Queen’s Plate as well as the Met.

Crawford trains Whisky Baron who was second to Marinaresco in both the Winter Guineas and Winter Classic. Of course it’s who you beat that counts – something has got to finish second –but Greg Cheyne’s mount has won both his starts this term in good style even though he is not favoured by the conditions here.

“It’s a big ask and I am sure it will be tough for him,” Crawford admits. “Brazuca is rated 11 points better but, that said, it will be a good test for Whisky Baron.”

The gelding opened at 14-10 with World Sports Betting who have Brazuca favourite at 17-20. It looks a two-horse race although Mambo Mime has been nibbled at (8-1 to 7-1) despite finishing well down the field in the Cape Merchants, his first run since the Durban July. He is 100-1 for the Met.

“He was to have run in the Champions Cup after the July but he developed a thrombosis and he was in hospital in Durban for a month,” says Dean Kannemeyer. “He was badly in need of his run in the Merchants and he still not 100% but you can’t leave him out.”

You can get 500-1 about Macduff for the Met and he is a 14-1 chance here. He went close in an 1 800m handicap here a week ago but he has a lot to do at the weights.

Tahini (8-1) was third in the Grade 2 Ipi Tombe Challenge over a mile but also has it to do on these terms which are the equivalent of her not getting the sex allowance.  Waiting For Rain (14-1) is a useful handicapper but has hardly a prayer at these weights.

Some of Andre Nel’s newcomers have proved worth backing in recent weeks and the money came for Head Honcho in the first in no uncertain manner mid-morning yesterday. One minute he was a 7-1 chance and the next he was favourite at 22-10. It wasn’t the trainer’s money – Nel doesn’t bet – but he describes the Querari colt as “a very nice horse.”

Border Control has been backed in the last and could well go off favourite for the third time on the trot. His last run, though, suggests he could be vulnerable and it is significant that Adam Marcus, who took last Saturday’s Cape Summer Stayers with 22-1 shot Royal Badge, is putting blinkers on the consistent Verdier.

That said, I have been waiting for Loadshedder to go over a mile and he is taken to repay this column’s recent losses with interest.

By Michael Clower

William Longsword’s racecourse appearances will be strictly limited after he earned himself a lifetime lording it over a Klawervlei harem by storming home at 22-1 in Saturday’s Grand Parade Cape Guineas.

“I said to John Koster beforehand that this horse’s mission is the Guineas and, if he wins it, he will go back to you,” said Markus Jooste’s racing manager Derek Brugman. “He is one of the best looking horses you will ever see and he is a Captain Al half-brother to Real Princess so he has a stallion’s pedigree. From now on we will race him extremely sparingly with an eye to his stallion career.”

William Longsword (Liesl King)

Brugman referred to “a magnificent training feat” on the part of Vaughan Marshall, doubtless thinking of the way the Milnerton handler boosted the horse’s confidence by bringing him back from a nasty over-reach in the Selangor to run away with a minor handicap just 11 days before the big race.

Marshall, winning his fourth Cape Guineas, jokingly brushed the compliment aside, saying: “Why should I have paid the racecourse for galloping him when they could pay me?”

It was eight years ago that MJ Byleveld won this on Le Drakkaar from a similarly wide draw and he slotted in his mount as smoothly as card dealer at the sponsor’s casino. “I had to commit early and fortunately I got there for nothing,” he related. “It was ideal having Table Bay just in front of me because I knew he was the horse to beat and, when we got to the 400m, I could see that he was under more pressure than I was. Once I went clear I knew it would take a good horse to come and beat me.”

For a few tantalising seconds Richard Fourie felt he was going to do just that on Gold Standard – “I thought I was going to get to him but then the winner went on again.”

Goodtime Gal (Liesl King)

He was beaten half a length and Glen Kotzen said: “We are happy with the result – cowboys don’t cry – but we sat handy because we thought they were going to try and turn it into a sprint, and so it proved with the time nearly three seconds slower than the Selangor. We are thinking of the Investec Cape Derby but we don’t rule out the Met.”

The decision to abandon well-publicised waiting tactics and make the running with 3-1 favourite Table Bay was the surprise of the race. A clearly disappointed Joey Ramsden would only say: “I don’t want to talk about it” but Anton Marcus said: “I thought mine had every chance. I waited and I nursed but as soon as I was challenged I knew.”

His mount was over three lengths back third with Elevated justifying Riaan van Reenen’s beliefs at 40-1 in fourth and Edict Of Nantes, last of all turning for home, running on into fifth but his fancied stable companion Craven, who returned minus a front shoe, beat only two home. “I had a hard race early and they squeezed me quite a bit,” Bernard Fayd-Herbe explained. “I had a good run into the straight but he then threw in the towel. I think it was all a bit early for him.”

Candice Bass-Robinson had her biggest win so far when Brian Finch’s Icy Trail and Grant van Niekerk just held on in the Sun International Premier Trophy but, despite also winning the last with Silver Master, she went home disappointed. “I had a frustrating day with too many seconds (five of them) and I still think Horizon should have got it in the boardroom.”

Icy Trail (Liesl King)

Van Niekerk lodged an objection after having to switch right and left as he finished best of all in the Grand Foods Jet Master, going under by a dwindling half-length to Fifty Cents on the Cape Derby-bound colt. It took the stipes almost 15 minutes to decide to leave the result unchanged (Ernie Rodrigues: “Grant never stopped riding and there was no loss of momentum”) but Fifty Cents also hampered Winter Prince (fourth) and Captain’s Flame (fifth). Rider Anthony Andrews faces an unenviable inquiry.

Justin Snaith, who trains the winner, won four of the first five and will run Varsfontein’s conditions race winner Bela-Bela in the Maine Chance Paddock Stakes on January 7 before deciding between the Met and the Majorca.

Anton Marcus, who was riding her for the first time, said: “This race was devoid of pace and she was clearly underdone but she lifted for me at the right time. Hopefully I will be able to stick with her.”

Silver Mountain, last until 300m out, was beaten less than a length and a half into fourth and also goes for the Paddock. “I’m not sure she stays 1 800m and the Majorca is her main mission,” said Mrs Robinson. “She came back into training quite late and has had a rushed preparation but this will bring her on.”

The Paddock closes on Friday, a fact not lost on Mike Robinson after Goodtime Gal (Fourie) proved three-quarters of a length too strong for Nightingale in the CTS Victress Stakes.

By Michael Clower

Table Bay can prove his Selangor form all wrong by taking the Grand Parade Cape Guineas at Kenilworth tomorrow.

But it’s not a given and Anton Marcus’s mount faces some formidable challengers, notably Gold Standard and the Dingaans pair Singapore Sling and Heavenly Blue.

Singapore Sling (JC Photographics)

The jury – at least the handicappers and most punters – is still out on why the favourite ran so far below his Cape Classic best last time but Joey Ramsden has never wavered from his belief that his horse was too close to the pace in a race that was run too fast. This time A New Dawn will be asked to go even quicker so that Table Bay can be positioned further back.

Ramsden, who won this with Variety Club in 2011 and Act Of War two years ago, has on this occasion abandoned his usual practice of taking the horse to Kenilworth for his final gallop. “Table Bay had a hard race last time,” he explains. “So I have freshened him up and he has been doing well.”

Is the trainer afraid of anything else? “Not really, no,” he answers although the stats are not in his favour – six of the last eight Guineas favourites have been beaten.

Neither Glen Kotzen nor Richard Fourie has ever won this race but the pair are in inspired form and 7-1 chance Gold Standard has won his last three.  His trainer’s optimism is readily understandable – “Gold Standard’s times have improved like you can’t believe and I really do think he has a big shout.”

In the Dingaans Singapore Sling and Heavenly Blue raced almost together and pulled clear in the final furlong where Geoff Woodruff’s charge proved just over a length the better. Heavenly Blue has a bad draw yet – presumably because the Mike de Kock factor – he is the shorter of the pair at 13-2. That said, Singapore Sling’s chance is not helped by Gavin Lerena being ruled out after falling foul of the Hong Kong authorities.

Zodiac Ruler (Nkosi Hlophe)

Craven has been backed from 16-1 to 10-1 and he could have a better chance than Selangor runner-up Edict Of Nantes who is severely handicapped by a wide draw. “They have worked together, there is not much between them and Craven has been doing very well at home,” says Brett Crawford.

Africa Rising has been backed from 12-1 to 8-1 to give Sean Tarry another big race winner and it’s worth bearing in mind that S’Manga Khumalo’s mount was badly drawn when only sixth to stable companion Sage Harbour in the Lanzerac Ready To Run.

Zodiac Ruler is also in single figures with World Sports Betting despite a disappointing effort in the Lanzerac. “He got too far back and he couldn’t get a run up the short straight,” reckons Justin Snaith. “It will be a different story with the longer run-in although he still has to contend with a bad draw.”

Snaith also fancies 12-1 shot Bishop’s Bounty – “He was unlucky in the Ready To Run, he has been doing well and I think he is very underestimated. He is the dark horse of the race.”

Some punters reckon that Elevated is that and have already backed him from 50-1 to 33-1. He has been deliberately kept off the course since his second to Table Bay in the Classic. “He has blossomed at the right time,” reports Riaan van Reenen. “His draw (14) is a killer but if Greg Cheyne can overcome it I think he will be in the first four.”

Hack Green (16-1) has never raced beyond 1 200m (Dennis Drier: “On pedigree he should get the trip and I think he will”) but 14-1 Gunner’s Premier Champions win has not been enhanced by his two races since two while William Longsword is another who has to contend with a bad draw.

By Michael Clower

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Starting Tuesday December 13 TAB, in conjunction with tabGOLD and Tellytrack, will offer additional racing products accompanied by live TV coverage from 4am every morning until 12.30am the following morning.

Australian racing will kick-off proceedings around 4am followed by the normal mix of local and international racing throughout the day with races from the USA filling the late-night slots.

“Obviously the 4am to 12.30am schedule is dependent on the availability of suitable international products and inevitably there will be days when there is simply insufficient product to fill the schedule,” said Phumelela Betting Executive Vee Moodley.

The Tote is looking to expand the live racing timeframe from 4am to 2am the following day, but is still in the process of sourcing suitable international product in order to provide betting opportunities 22 hours daily.

Commingled tote pools will only operate from 10am to 10pm in order to ensure that customers are betting into pools with critical mass.

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Most of the country has been crying out for a drop of rain but Scottsville has had more than its fair share, especially when it comes just before a race meeting.

With most of yesterday afternoon dogged by persistent drizzle, the ninth and last race was carried over to the next Scottsville meeting after jockeys complained of poor visibility and the meeting was called off after the running of the final Gold Circle Witness KZN Summer Challenge race.

Mr Winsome (Nkosi Hlophe)

In an effort to finish the meeting the jockeys were asked to keep off the inside running rail and on the better going, which they did. But the mud continued to fly pushing the field wide into the home straight.

Many battled in the sticky going, not so Mr Winsome who revelled in the conditions. Coming from off the pace and hard up against the outside rail, Dean Kannemeyer’s runner rattled home under Alec Forbes to win as he liked from the hard-knocking Frikkie.

The meeting started off well for punters but as conditions deteriorated, so did the results with a number of hard luck stories included.

Magical Bet came out on top in the mud-fight that was the Summer Challenge 1600m final to continue Glen Kotzen’s current hot streak, the 20-1 chance edging home ahead of Run Rhino Run and a decidedly unlucky Caribbean Day. The runner-up lent hard on the eventual winner who in turn cut across the bows of Caribbean Day who was making what could have been a winning run.

The stipendiary stewards were not convinced and there was no call for a race review.

Monte Christo was pegged by Alistair Gordon as a horse with a future early in his career but has since moved to Charles Laird where he has won two of his four starts for the yard including the 1200m KZN Challenge final. Listening to Anton Marcus the gelding is obviously a bit of an under achiever. “I should probably say this quietly,” he confided, “but his work at home is Group one quality. He just doesn’t bring it to the racetrack.” Blinkers obviously helped yesterday as he got the better of a tough fight with Roy’s Marciano and Highway Explorer.

Marcus was in top form ahead of his date with Table Bay in the Gr1 Grand West Cape Guineas on Saturday, booting home four winners including Kom Naidoo’s Trini’s Var Hyt in the card opener, deputising for Anthony Delpech who took a fall at The Vaal during the week.

Most impressive winner on the day was the Duncan Howells-trained and Dave McLean-owned Wild Wicket in the third. Running first time as a gelding he stretched away from his rivals to win as he liked and looks to have some scope.

By Andrew Harrison

Saturday’s Grand Parade Cape Guineas looks like being run at a searching gallop as the Mayfair Speculators team try to tee things up for probable favourite Table Bay.

Supplementary entry A New Dawn, who made the running in the Selangor, is to do the same job only faster and Derek Brugman said: “We want a very strong pace so that he (Table Bay) can sit further back.”

Table Bay (Liesl King)

Anton Marcus, whose previous winning partners include Jay Peg and Variety Club, reckoned he might have sat too close too the pace in last month’s test.

But I Travel Light, the third Ramsden runner and only first reserve at the moment, was put into the race last Wednesday because he had gone close to Selangor winner Gold Standard on the latter’s previous start at Fairview.

Glen Kotzen, though, is bullish about Gold Standard’s chance and his optimism is buoyed by both the stable’s present form – two more winners on Saturday – and that of the colt’s jockey. Richard Fourie followed up Friday’s Fairview four-timer with three more on Saturday – one for Kotzen and two for Shane Humby.

Kotzen said: “Gold Standard is doing great and absolutely flying. He has cracked at decent draw (seven) and we are very excited. Look at the time of the Selangor (less than second outside Legislate’s course record). It was a proper-run race.”

But there are some notable absentees from the Guineas – in particular Our Mate Art and Grade 1 winner Always In Charge with Vaughan Marshall reporting about the latter: “He was never going to run drawn 19 – I wasn’t going to risk him.”

Real Princess (Nkosi Hlophe)

Plans are “undecided” but Our Mate Art has the Investec Cape Derby as his new target. “He got a very hard knock when he was cut into in the Selangor. We had him x-rayed and found he had chipped a piece of splint bone,” said Candice Bass-Robinson who reports that Sun Met favourite Marinaresco is fine after his great Green Point run. “Our Mate Art is on antibiotics at the moment but he is in light work.”

Carry On Alice pleased Sean Tarry after failing by only half a length to peg back 22-1 all-the-way scorer Jo’s Bond in the CTS Southern Cross Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday.

“I thought she might just need it,” said the champion trainer. “There are two races for her before the Cape Flying Championship – the Diadem and the Sceptre – but I just might leave it at this. We will see.”

Real Princess, only fifth, goes for the Sceptre on January 6 when Dean Kannemeyer believes that the extra furlong will be just what she needs. Grant Behr reported: “I was right behind the winner but mine was then caught a bit flat-footed. She needs the 1 200m.”

Justin Snaith dismissed all suggestions of a Sceptre rematch with the winner, saying: “Jo’s Bond is a 1 000m horse and that is the trip she likes,” but rider Donovan Dillon came up with the quote of the day – “The Snaiths have often given me a bone but luckily there was a bit of meat on this one.”

Donovan Dillon (Nkosi Hlophe)

Tarry has a string of 12 at Milnerton including two-year-olds and the first of these to run at Kenilworth was Jay Peg’s half-brother Barrack Street who readily justified 18-10 favouritism under S’Manga Khumalo in the Snaith Racing Maiden. “We can now get a line,” commented Tarry.

The Vaughan Marshall Racing Maiden Juvenile took more than four minutes to load with Jacinda, and Lacerta in particular, increasingly threatening to upset the others and afterwards Derek Brugman issued a heartfelt plea to the starter, saying: “You can’t have juveniles standing in the pens for nearly five minutes – that can ruin a horse’s whole career. It should be two tries and ‘sorry, that’s it.’”

Most owners and trainers will, I am sure, take the same view. Dennis Drier, who won the race with the heavily-backed and appropriately named Bank On It (Sean Veale), confirmed that Miss Frankel is on target to make her much-awaited debut next month.

There are three Frankel fillies and a colt in next month’s CTS Cape Premier Yearling Sale. All are from Southern Hemisphere coverings and are sold by Klawervlei whose boss John Koster said: “We bought the mares in the UK, put them in foal and then brought them out here. “ Klawervlei are also selling ten Rock Of Gibraltar yearlings plus a filly by the now-dead American sire sensation Scat Daddy.

By Michael Clower

SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER KENILWORTH FIRST TIMER COMMENTS

GLEN PULLER
Race 1 – BUBZEE GIRL (3): Shows a bit of pace, is fit and well and if not too green – hoping she will run well.
Race 3 – XIBELANI (16): A nice filly, I have a little bit of hope with her, she has a lovely action but might need the experience and a touch further.

MARGOT STEYN
Race 3 – JASON’S SISTER (6): Quite precocious but could be green and need the run.

VAUGHAN MARSHALL
Race 1 – COSMIC DUST (5): Needs further.
Race 1 – ELSIE VEE (8): Is quick and in with a chance.
Race 1 – MADE THE GRADE (12): She will need further.
Race 2 – THE BORDER WAR (7): Shows speed but will be better over 1000m.
Race 2 – SUNDAY FALLS (6): Shows speed but will be better over 1000m.

PIET STEYN
Race 1 – DISCO WARRIOR (6): I am expecting a fair run.
Race 1 – JACINDA (10): I am expecting a fair run.

GLEN KOTZEN
Race 1 – SHERULESTHEWORLD (14): Is not a bad little filly but will need this experience as she is still a touch on the soft side.

GREG ENNION
Race 1 – STREAM OF KINDNESS (15): Will be scratched.
Race 2 – ZODIAC JACK (9): A nice colt but will be better over 1000m.
Race 2 – REGAL RUBY (11): A nice filly – I have gone with the fillies weight allowance and the claiming apprentice weight against the boys. She is very quick and if jumping well will be there.

BRETT CRAWFORD
Race 2 – BOLD RESPECT (3): Working well and if not too green, can place.

JONO SNAITH FOR JUSTIN SNAITH
Race 1 – LACERTA (11): Quite speedy at home and could run into the money.
Race 2 – LIBRA (10): A nice filly but taking on very strong colts.
Race 2 – THE JUDICATOR (8): Could need his first run.

HAROLD CRAWFORD
Race 3 – JEANS SONG (7): A nice filly but could be green and need the run.

ANDRE NEL
Race 3 – KNOW THE ROPES (9): Will more than likely be scratched. Keep an eye on the card changes closer to the time.
Race 3 – SILK TRIP (15): Not a bad filly and she could run a good race as she shows some speed.

MIKE ROBINSON
Race 3 – MISS MYMONEY (11): A small filly but she is very quick however she might need the experience.