Epona earns shot at Majorca
JOEY Ramsden yesterday supplemented last Friday’s Jamaica Handicap winner Epona for the Klawervlei Majorca on Sun Met day together with Supercilious who won a 1 400m fillies conditions plate the following day.
Both horses carry the Mayfair Speculators colours.
Also supplemented for the mile fillies Grade 1 were Party Crusher (Glen Kotzen) and the Justin Snaith-trained Fear Not while Snaith put last Friday’s easy Kenilworth handicap winner Copper Force into the Investec Cape Derby.
Durban trainer Frank Robinson has supplemented Winter Is Coming for the Derby after the way the colt floored the odds laid on Red Chesnut Road in the Racing.It’s A Rush Progress Plate over 1 400m on the polytrack at Greyville on Monday.
Gold Standard
Kotzen’s Cape Guineas runner-up Gold Standard has come in for further Sun Met support and has been cut from 16-1 to 12-1 with Betting World while Queen’s Plate runner-up Captain America has shortened slightly from 25-1 to 22-1.
Legal Eagle (15-10) continues to head the market with Marinaresco (33-10) and Whisky Baron (9-2).
Rival firm World Sports Betting has the trio much the same at 15-10, 7-2 and 9-2.
Craig du Plooy, who broke several bones in his right hand in a racecourse fall at the beginning of November, won’t quite make it back in time for Met day but declares himself to be ready soon afterwards.
However he is going to have to be patient because there is no racing in Cape Town for a fortnight after the Met.
Scar
Du Plooy he has a two inch scar between his thumb and forefinger where the surgeon took out some of the damaged cartilege and anchored the bone. Real Princess, who disappointed in last Friday’s Sceptre Stakes, was yesterday reported fine by Dean Kannemeyer who said: “She was bumped but she was already under pressure at that stage.
“She has come through the race well and I am seriously considering the Majorca.”
Andre Nel had the first treble of his short but highly successful training career yesterday when Ready Set Go, Loadshedder and Guilty Pleasure all obliged in successive races at Kenilworth yesterday.