Marcus to ride Tap O’Noth

JOCKEY Anton Marcus has been snapped up for two of Vaughan Marshall’s stable stars at Durbanville on Saturday – Cape Guineas winner Tap O’Noth in the Matchem and the unbeaten Langerman winner One World in the 1 400m Progress Plate.

The four-time champion will also renew his partnership with Goodtime Gal in the Diana Stakes.

He won last year’s race on the Mike Robinsontrained mare and finished second on her in a 1 200m conditions plate at Kenilworth a month ago.

Joey Ramsden, who has won the Matchem with high-class horses like Variety Club and Act Of War, has supplemented Premiers Champion third Twist Of Fate for the Grade 3 test. The three-time winner gets in with only 50kg.

Aldo ‘Usain’ Domeyer looks like running in the Jockeys Chase after all as the organisers are flying in two speedy opponents from Johannesburg. Kenilworth Racing’s promotions man Clinton Theys expects to know their identities later today.

Domeyer, fresh from his Singapore triumph, said: “I was thinking of sponsoring myself (instead of running) so that the charity does not lose out but, if they are going to fly in two guys from Joburg, I will have to run.”

The Cape champion was a runaway winner of the jockeys chase for four years on the trot before last year’s fiasco when it was decided to turn the race into a relay, pairing Domeyer with Corne Orffer (by his own admission one of the slowest in the field). But Grant van Niekerk sabotaged the whole thing by deliberately placing his baton into the unsuspecting Domeyer’s hand. This time the event reverts to a straight race over 100m.

In other news Unbeaten Pleased to meet you could step up to 1 400m for his next start as he possibly heads towards the Cape Guineas in December.

Andre Nel said: “While I am not yet sure where he will run next I am going to nominate him for the Cape Classic (October 28). He relaxes well enough at home to suggest he will get the 1 400m.”

Nel added that the colt “has taken his last race well”. This is good news considering the accusations levelled against Bernard Fayd’Herbe of giving the colt an unduly hard race in the Sophomore Sprint. –