No more waiting for Tarry’s filly

What you waiting for looked to have loads of potential in her first two runs but has not been seen in action since winning her maiden at her second start.

That run was on 10 May, and it has taken 175 days for the daughter of Canford Cliffs to get back to racing.

Now a three-year-old, What you waiting for is carded to make her reappearance in Race 7 at the Vaal today, a Novice Handicap over 1200m, where she will be taking on some useful colts and geldings.

In her first run, What you waiting for came up against some talented twoyear-old fillies, finishing a four-length fourth, in a field headed up by Galla Vanting who beat Miss Cool into second.

Second time out she went off as a 4-10 favourite and was hardly off the bit to beat Simply Magic by three lengths.

One can obviously expect this filly to be in need of a run, but Sean Tarry is a master at bringing horses back from a layoff and winning with them.

A very real threat is the Roy Magner-trained Thunderstone. This three -year-old was rated highly enough to tackle some of the key juvenile features on the Highveld and was sent to KwaZulu-Natal to contest the Grade 2 Golden Horseshoe last season.

He ran well enough in those races and has since been gelded. The son of Soft Falling Rain ran in the Bloodstock SA Sales Cup over 1450m on 1 October where he found good betting support to shorten from 33-1 to 13-2 but he finished midfield and was reported not be striding out.

Thunderstone must be showing good work at home and with Gavin Lerena up, must be a lively runner, although he does give What you waiting for 4.5kg.

Drop Of Time is another to follow. Trained by Johan Janse van Vuuren, this Pomodoro three-year-old placed in his first two starts after which he was gelded. He came back from the surgery in good nick as he went on to win his first start back - a Work Riders’ Maiden Plate over 1000m at Turffontein.

He found stable companion Kalahari Blue too good in his next start, finishing in seventh place, and his last run needs to be ignored as he clearly found 1700m too far at this stage of his career.