Aldo Domeyer, successful on eight of his last 17 Kenilworth rides, can start with a winner at the Cape Town course tomorrow when racegoers should note the uncharacteristically early start (11.20am).
Casual Diamond has been showing steady improvement and should win this Juvenile Fillies Maiden with her jockey in such irresistible form. The obvious danger is Pumeza who went close on her first run despite starting at 45-1 and on whom Marco van Rensburg has his first Kenilworth ride of the season.
Indeed Domeyer looks set for another good day. He doesn’t have many rides for Dean Kannemeyer but he gets an SOS for Cossack Guard in race three because this gelding has a serious dose of seconditis. He has been runner-up in each of his last five starts and even jockeys of the calibre of Piere Strydom and Alnthony Delpech couldn’t persuade him to put his head in front where it matters.
For those punters who wouldn’t touch a horse like this with a financial barge pole Counting Stars is suggested but Cossack Guard’s form reads better and even he may be carried along by that inspired driving of an in-full-flight Domeyer.
Time To Think, bumped three times when starting favourite last time, looks easier material for the jockey-in-form in the next and should prevail over the lightly raced Bring Me More whose last run was good.
With so many Cape Town jockeys in action at Greyville, riders have been summoned from far and wide. Luyola (known as Louis) Mxothwa is a relative stranger to Cape Town but he is equal fourth on the Fairview log this term with 29 winners and he should go close on Above Eleven in the Soccer 6 Maiden Juvenile Fillies (race two).
Public Prosecutor could be another for Domeyer here – the running of Pumeza in the first will be a good guide to the Snaith filly’s chance as she was fourth when Pumeza was third – but the vote goes to Capaill who had some useful sorts behind when a five-length plus second to Oh Susanna on debut.
Promising two-year-olds Cyber Law and Spectra Force take on the older horses in race five but preference is for Off Broadway who was odds-on last time when she just failed to peg back Pergola who managed to slip the field.
Colorado Rose (another who suffers from seconditis) and stable companion Sandy Bay take each other on for the third race in succession in the Racing Association Maiden. There was precious little between them last time but maybe the Marwing magic can do it for Colorado.
By Michael Clower


