Dutch Philip heads Cape Nursery entries

– Dutch Philip stands out among the 12 entries for the Cape Of Good Hope Nursery, a 1200m Grade 3 race at Kenilworth on Saturday 27 May.

The Candice Bass-Robinsontrained What A Winter colt has won three of his four starts, most recently the Listed Somerset 1200 in which he started favourite despite giving weight all round and quickened smoothly to lead 300m out for a rather more convincing success than the length verdict might suggest.

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His only defeat came on Sun Met Day when he started favourite for the two-year-old Listed race but was beaten into third behind Call To Account and Kasimir, who has also been entered here. Kasimir was second in the Somerset but will be 4kg worse off.

Robinson, who believes that things did not go right for Dutch Philip on Met Day, has also entered Virtue who made a winning debut last month.

Justin Snaith, Kasimir’s trainer, has also entered last Sunday’s winner Forest Prince.

Snaith has won two of the last four renewals of this raced, including last year with Sergeant Hardy.

Joey Ramsden is responsible for a quarter of the entry and Morning Catch, Silver Coin and Speedpoint are all winners – the first two scored first time out and Silver Coin is the highest-priced yearling to race in South Africa so far – he was bought for R6 million at last year’s Cape Premier Yearling Sale.

Supplementary entries close on Friday with declarations the following Monday.

Entries for the R200,000 Cape Of Good Hope Nursery (Grade 3) over 1200m

7 BADAWEE (D Kannemeyer) 60.0

6 BENFONTEIN (D Kannemeyer) 60.0

3 DOLLAR TRACTOR (B Crawford) 60.0

10 DUTCH PHILIP (C L BassRobinson) 60.0

9 FOREST PRINCE (S J Snaith) 60.0 4 KASIMIR (S J SNAITH) 60.0 2 MORNING CATCH (J Ramsden) 60.0

1 SILVER COIN (J Ramsden) 60.0

11 SPEEDPOINT (J Ramsden) 60.0

12 STOCK BROKER (D Kannemeyer) 60.0

8 VIRTUE (C L Bass-Robinson) 60.0

5 ZODIAC JACK (G W Ennion) 60.0