Do It Again’s July odds shortened
DO IT AGAIN was yesterday cut from 14-1 to 8-1 joint second favourite for the Vodacom Durban July following his last-to-first Daisy Guineas win on Friday evening.
Stable companion African Night Sky still heads the market with Betting World but has been eased from 6-1 to 152.
Sun Met winner Oh Susanna, yet another of Justin Snaith’s aces, remains on 8-1 despite being forced to miss the Daisy Guineas because of a bruised heel.
Coral Fever is 16-1 (from 251) after his Premier’s Champions Challenge triumph while Perovskia has been slashed from 125-1 but is still among the 50-1 shots despite winning the Independent On Saturday Drill Hall – surprising perhaps in view of the Drill Hall’s recognised place in the July build up. Marinaresco won in last year!
Undercover Agent, beaten a head in the Drill Hall, will give both the Daily News and the July a miss and instead will accompany Sail South – who was three lengths back fourth – into the Rising Sun Gold Challenge at Greyville on June 9.
Brett Crawford explained: “Maybe the July next year for Undercover Agent but at the moment he won’t get beyond a mile.
“Sail South will come on from his Drill Hall run. He needed it and ran well up to a point but the ground was very firm.”
Joey Ramsden is toying with the idea of running Saturday’s Computaform Sprint winner Attenborough in the Tsogo Sun Sprint at Scottsville on May 26 even though the Grade 1 is a handicap and the four-year-old is likely to be hiked above his present 110 mark when the handicappers convene by video link today.
Plans are fluid for stable companion Speedpoint, who was beaten just over two lengths into third.
But he is apparently even better than the Turffontein run would suggest because Ramsden said: “I have always though that he is a genuine Group 1 horse.
“He has tons of little niggles and one day he is going to get over them all.”