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Last Regal just clears first hurdle

MICHAEL CLOWER
No more than the width of a racecard separated the first three in the Rossgo Winter Guineas at Kenilworth on Saturday and at least two of them will stage a rematch in both the Winter Classic and the Winter Derby.
Last Regal finished best of all to short head joint favourite Kiss Again with Tales Of Bravery only a head away third and Karl Nesius believes that the 10-1 winner will be even more effective in the other two legs.
He said: “This was the hardest of the three races for him distance-wise and he won’t have any problems racing over more ground.”
The Jallad gelding is trained by Dean Kannemeyer for breeder Aldo Girolo, Bill Rae, Greg Blank and Ray Deacon. Kiss Again will renew rivalry in the Classic on May 29 but the Bass stable feel the Derby trip may be beyond him.
However Vaughan Marshall is already itching for revenge with Tales Of Bravery, saying: “We would have won this had it been on the winter course, the next two legs will be and also the extra distance will suit our horse.”
Eric Sands has the Winter Oaks on Secret Pleasure’s shopping list after Oswald Noach conjured a decisive late burst from the Peter Mills-bred Al Mufti filly for owners John Robertson and Reg Smith in the Candarian Equine Racing Services Stakes.
Sands was also on the mark in the opening workriders maiden with Timeless, the first winner from only two rides for Bizu Mzwandile.
Justin Snaith became the first Cape trainer, and only the third in the country, to reach 100 winners this season when Aldo Domeyer sprang a 14-1 surprise on Green Keeper in the second of the three two-year-old maidens.
The winner is the first horse Snaith has had for Mary Slack and he promptly won the third juvenile (race four) with Emerald Cove for Ken Truter and former American trainer Jim Russell.
Snaith completed a treble with Hassen Adams’ useful Dance With Al in the allowance plate (race eight) while Felix Coetzee completed his own treble on the Marshall-trained Crouching Tiger in the concluding mile handicap.

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