Dawson’s Jameson Girl takes on Al Danza

Candice Dawson has made a successful start to her training career and will be hoping for another good effort from her filly Jameson Girl in the seventh race at Turffontein on Saturday.

A daughter of Jay Peg bred at Klawervlei Stud, Jameson Girl has been in the money in each of her four starts. She won her maiden race at the Vaal in December by four lengths.

Leading jockey Gavin Lerena rode the three-year-old into second place last time out, but he now switches to Geoff Woodruff’s runner Al Danza.

Al Danza, a R350,000 daughter of Captain Al, is welltreated by the conditions of this 1,450m event and is likely to be sent off favourite.

Another runner who will probably attract betting support is Alec Laird’s Irish-bred filly State Star.

She won her maiden in good style with Anthony Delpech in the saddle, who takes the mount again on Saturday.

Champion trainer Sean Tarry sends out Visuality, who had a shocking draw in the Gauteng Fillies Guineas and finished a long way behind stablemate Smiling Blue Eyes.

Tarry has a better chance of success in the sixth race in which he saddles the Var gelding Ribovar. This R550,000 buy has returned to the Highveld after running second in a race at Kenilworth on Sun Met day.

Dawson also has a runner in this race in the form of her National Emblem gelding Mess. Although the form of her maiden win has been franked, the threeyear-old may have to settle for a place in this nine-runner field.

Provided he can overcome a wide draw, Delpech should go close on another Alec Laird runner, Sun Sentinel, in the last leg of the Pick 6.

The filly’s fourth behind Bi-Pot has been boosted by that filly’s good third in last weekend’s Wilgerbosdrift Classic. She gets the vote to beat home Russian Star and Movie Award.

● Tellytrack will be screening the Grand National at Aintree on Saturday at 6.15pm.

This column’s two each-way fancies are The Young Master, trained by Neil Mulholland, and Vicente, who represents the top stable of Paul Nicholls.