Smashing chance for Binda

Once again, the best bets of the day come up early at Hollywoodbets Greyville today when they race on the Polytrack.

Trainer Clinton Binda has been having a smashing time raiding in KwaZulu-Natal, particularly races on the Polytrack, and he can get bettors off to a winning start in Race 1, a Maiden Plate for fillies and mares over 1000m.

He sends out Rafeef filly Smashing who only has to take to the surface to win this race. She has only raced four times for a third, a fourth, a fifth and a sixth place but while she might not be a superstar, she certainly looks a cut above her opposition in this event.

She has not always had the best of luck because two runs back her saddled slipped, while last time she was reported to be blowing post race.

She does have good gate speed which is always useful over the minimum trip on the Polytrack and Binda will be fitting her in a set of blinkers for the first time, she is drawn well enough in gate No 5 and will have Richard Fourie in the irons.

A race later trainer Gareth van Zyl sends out True Love’s Kiss and she too looks tough to oppose in this Maiden Plate for fillies and mares over 1600m. She was narrowly beaten into third place last time but in mitigation, at the time there had been a break in preparations due to ongoing rain.

Like Smashing, she will be having her first run on the Polytrack but she will have the services of Gavin Lerena in the irons this time.

The three-year-old daughter of Gimmethegreenlight has been improving with each start and having smoothly moved through the gears in that last race should have no problem with the surface, especially from gate No 1.