Queen’s Plate winner Legal Eagle and Triple Crown hero Abashiri may both travel from Johannesburg to take on Marinaresco and Captain America in the Green Point Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday week.

Mike Azzie said yesterday: “At this stage Abashiri is going to run. We want him to have a good look at the track because he has never raced on a left-handed course before.

Abashiri (Nkosi Hlophe)

”Anthony Delpech will ride the horse but he won’t be fancied and we will let him come on from the run.”

Sean Tarry added: “It’s not definite but we are seriously considering the Green Point for Legal Eagle and, if he does run, he will stay in Cape Town for the L’Ormarin’s Queen’s Plate and the Sun Met.”

Azzie, who intends doing the same with Abashiri, added that Delpech has also been booked for Thekwini winner Querari Falcon in the World Sports Betting Fillies Guineas on the same card. She is joint top-rated with She’s A Giver who won Turffontein’s Princess Charlene Of Monaco Starling Stakes on her return earlier this month. Johan Janse van Vuuren has already declared Gavin Lerena.

Star sprinter Red Ray has been given the steadier of 62kg in the Cape Merchants and has to concede 2.5kg to Gulf Storm who is the next highest rated. Third top is Tevez who has won the sprint handicap twice before.

Tarry said that he plans to bring back his SA Nursery winner Cloth Of Cloud early next month, adding: “She is a million dollar horse so we are aiming her at one of the two CTS $500 000 races on January 28. Unfortunately not much has changed with her behaviour!”

The daughter of Captain Al is something of a wayward individual and has a disconcerting habit of pulling herself up the second she reaches the line.

By Michael Clower