Inara, Captain Chaos ready

DUAL Grade 1 winner Inara and classic hope Captain Chaos have their first outings of the season at Durbanville on Saturday when a big screen will be installed to show the Rugby World Cup.

Inara , winner of both the Maine Chance Paddock Stakes and the Klawervlei Majorca in January, reappears in the 1 400m Gold Circle Allowance Plate and is the principal reason why Grant van Niekerk decided to take his seven-day suspension a week early.

The four-year-old will be opposed by stable companion Come Fly With Me (Corne Orffer) and has the Lanzerac Diana Stakes on October 3 as her first feature objective.

Neil Bruss has snapped up the in-form Donovan Dillon for Zante who has her first run since finishing fourth in the Woolavington over three months ago.

Robert Khathi, star of the Nedbank TV advert (“amazing things happen when you partner with the right people’’) ,partners Cape Nursery winner Captain Chaos for the first time in public in the 1 300m Gold Circle Graduation Plate which came perilously close to being scratched yesterday

Only five of the 35 entries were declared and the National Racing Bureau had to hastily ring round for others to make up the numbers. Even so, they only came up with two.

Durbanville is not popular with some owners and trainers. They point to the slight ridge-and-furrow surface and the firmness of the ground in summer.

In the writer's experience it bears favourable comparison with country courses in other parts of the world (firm ground apart) and it is certainly better than the majority of those in Ireland.

Also it’s wide and the bend between the back straight and the straight is cambered to help the horses.

Dynamic looks set to miss the R1 million Supreme Cup at the Vaal on Saturday week despite running so well on his reappearance in the Edgeline Pinnacle at Turffontein last Saturday.

Justin Snaith said: “He did a tendon as a three-year-old so I am not going to risk him in the sand. He is being aimed at the Sansui Summer Cup (November 28) and he will have a good chance if he gets a light weight.’’