Snowdance gets her chance

SNOWDANCE will get her 1 400m Pinnacle outing at Kenilworth on Saturday after all. There were fears that last season’s Cape Fillies Guineas and Majorca winner might frighten away all the opposition but five have been declared against her – just enough to save the race. Justin Snaith also decided to run Platinum Class (Greg Cheyne) but it was Glen Kotzen who saved the race, declaring Prix Du Cap winner Elusive Heart (Bernard Fayd’Herbe) as well as Luna Child (Craig Zackey). Michael Robinson runs Goodtime Gal (Sindile Mbhele) and Andre Nel will be represented by his Diana winner Love To Boogie (Aldo Domeyer). Richard Fourie rides Snowdance.

Front And Centre

The sponsors make the unbeaten Brett Crawford-trained Front And Centre 5-2 favourite for Saturday week’s World Sports Betting Fillies Guineas with Western Cape Fillies Championship winner Clouds Unfold second favourite at 33-10. Temple Grafin, a length and a quarter second to Candice Bass-Robinson’s filly in that race, is next on 7-1. Mike de Kock’s Ghaalla (8-1) is the only other quoted at less than 15-1.

In the Cape Guineas Vaughan Marshall’s unbeaten One World heads the market at 16-10 with De Kock’s Dingaans scorer Hawwaam (also unbeaten) on 22-10. His stable companion Soqrat is next on 11-2 and then it’s 6-1 Chimichuri Run, 9-1 Twist Of Fate, Cirillo, 16-1 bar.

Oscar Foulkes, who with his mother Veronica runs the Normandy Stud, appears to have picked up a bargain at the WC Equine Trust meeting at Kenilworth last Saturday.

He went to R35 000 to outbid all opposition to secure a service to the hugely successful Twice Over whose fee for the current season is billed at R50 000. Foulkes also runs the catering at Kenilworth.