The Citizen (Gauteng)

Turning Gold has the right alchemy to win at Yarmouth

- MAKE MAGIC WITH MORRICE

– TURNING GOLD can display the Midas touch and notch the next leg of what could develop into a sequence of wins for Sir Mark Prescott in the Open Golf Betting At 188 Handicap at Yarmouth today.

This Pivotal gelding has painted a progressiv­e picture as he’s improved from race to race in four

London

outings this year, latterly scoring with any amount in hand over today’s course and distance.

The progeny of Pivotal tend to enjoy getting their feet into the ground and it was on a testing surface that the selection really came into his own.

Now, running quickly under a penalty, he needs to show he can handle a faster surface and I think he can.

He has the distinct look of one of those midsummer handicappe­rs the shrewd Prescott conjures a flurry of successes with at the minor courses.

The best race on an interestin­g card is the 188Bet Handicap where the instructio­n is to go with DUBARA.

A home-bred daughter of Dubawi owned by the Fittocks Stud, Dubara is going to be worth her weight in gold as a broodmare but more immediatel­y she can pay her way for trainer Luca Cumani who claims off her here.

Following two readying runs when third in a race at the Craven meeting and second at Salisbury, she is now primed to deliver in a contest where First Voyage looms as her main threat.

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