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Today's Racing :

Dan De Lago should be hard to oppose

Chad Cooke
It’s back to the Vaal tomorrow afternoon where the inside turf track will be used to run the nine carded races of which the seventh of the afternoon is the main event.
The seventh race is a Pinnacle Plate over 1 800m in which Charles Laird’s KZN Derby winner Dan De Lago tops the weights with 60kg
on his back, a distinction
he shares with former Gommagomma Challenge winner Eddington who is battling to regain that level of form.
Dan De Lago was strongly fancied to take the honours in the J&B Met but he missed the break and never got close. His form prior to that was excellent and his Met run is best ignored.
The Australian-bred import enjoys a weight advantage with all the opposition and he has done well at this track in the past.
The only concern with the Laird runner is that it has only been three weeks since the Met and he has had to travel.
If he has not been affected by the travelling, it should be a formality that he pockets the winner’s purse of R68 750.
Should Dan De Lago feel the effects of his recent trip to
the Western Cape, then the horse that becomes a danger is the Sean Tarry-trained Regal Ransom.
This son of Caesour put up a good last effort coming off a layoff and will strip fitter for this contest. His form over the distance is excellent and he has done well at the course in the past.
Tough ask
Regal Ransom is 4,5kg out at the weights with Dan De Lago which makes this a tough ask on paper but stranger things have happened in this game.
Of the other runners Gary Alexander’s Superfederation could get into the minor money.
Superfederation was beaten six lengths by Dan De Lago when they met last year, the latter giving the former 2kg then.
Tomorrow Dan De Lago has to concede 10kg to the Alexander runner and, theoretically, Superfederation should finish a lot closer this time.

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