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Today's Racing :

Smart Girl can solve the puzzle

Chad Cooke
With the current lull in the feature race programme, it is time for the moderates to make hay while the sun shines and the meeting at Turffontein on Saturday August 14 typifies just that. Phumelela stage a nine-race card on the inside track. Two fillies and mares 86 MR Handicaps over 1 450m and 1 800m head the meeting which has a distinctly dangerous look about it.
The first of the ‘topliners’ comes in the sixth race and will be run over 1 450m. The Goldkeeper mare Smart Girl brings some good form into this contest and if she builds on her last outing when she was full of running late over 1400m on the old track here, she could be the horse to be with.
Roy Magner’s charge has run over the course and distance before and has placed in two of four runs. Tomorrow she has a perfect draw and with Piere Strydom aboard has to have a big chance. The dangers to the Magner runner are Field Gate, Paramo and the Mogok filly, Sadie Parker. The latter could pose the biggest danger. Sadie Parker might only be a one-time winner but she has done well over the course and distance and with just 50,5kg to shoulder is a big danger. The second ‘topliner’ is the eighth race over 1 800m. As with the sixth, this is also a very competitive affair with at least four horses having strong claims at the first prize. Geoff Woodruff’s Quick Single comes off a short break but has won her last two of four career races, the first two having resulted in second placings. This daughter of Jallad is obviously talented and has scope but with a rating of 88 after just four runs has a hefty 60kg to shoulder here. Should she just be in need of the outing then this could prove a tough ask, making this a difficult contest to work out. The Ormond Ferraris-trained Sishebo put up a very good last effort coming off a layoff and she will strip a fitter horse here. She has done well over the distance and from a good draw has to go into equations. Smart Lass and Magic Penny have both done enough recently to suggest that if they have some luck in running, the winner’s box could be theirs.

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