High Green to master his field
SANSKRIFT look as nailed on for the TAB Telebet Maiden Juvenile Fillies at Durbanville on Saturday.
This R800 000 full sister to Santa Clara ran above expectations (in terms of readiness, not ability) when making much of the running on debut here last month only to be pipped on the post.
Aldo Domeyer’s mount will have learned a lot from that and should have come on enough to beat the badly drawn Third Runway and Linda Loves Lace who riding arrangements suggest is the pick of Justin Snaith’s five runners.
Two races before Sanskrift went so close Rio Querari did much the same, the principal differences being that he had had a run, started at odds-on and was caught by a 50-1 stable companion. The drop in trip in the Betting World Maiden should suit Richard Fourie’s mount.
However he is taking on older horses at considerably worse than weight-for-age. The official scale says he should be receiving 8.5kg from the three-year-olds but in fact he gets only 3kg.
In practical terms he is the equivalent of four lengths worse off than he should be.
This is not as bad as it sounds because he, and the other two juveniles, are up against horses who have not proved good enough to win a race in the first 16 months of their careers.
Rio Querari
Rio Querari seems sure to start favourite and he is a fairly confident selection.
The most obvious dangers are Kingston Rock and Empire Glory who is a fair bit better than last Saturday’s effort would suggest.
There are four two-year-olds up against the three-yearolds in the 1 400m Tellytrack.com Maiden but their chances are nothing like so obvious and the vote goes to Lip Service who was most unlucky not to win over a slightly shorter trip here last Saturday.
Her path was repeatedly blocked but she still finished like a certain future winner.
Silver Dazzle is the obvious danger but there is a line of form that gives the Joey Ramsden filly the edge.
Boomps A Daisy
The puzzle of the day comes in the last with Boomps A Daisy who so far has been something of a Jekkyl and Hyde. She has looked a bit special In two races at Kenilworth, and certainly far better than her current 73 rating, but on her only appearance here she was hardly the same horse.
She lost ground at the start, had trouble finding the right leg on the bend and didn’t really pick up.
Brett Crawford reports that she has not been back to Durbanville in the interim but he is optimistic that she will be OK this time.
Her nine draw is a negative but she has so much ability that she has to be the selection – but don’t have too much on!