The unbeaten Hashtagyolo, 33-10 favourite for the Wilgerbosdrift Gauteng Fillies Guineas at Turffontein on Saturday week, will work on the course on Thursday.
Dean Kannemeyer is determined to leave no stone unturned and has had her at Turffontein for the past five weeks even though the altitude acclimatisation is not as severe coming from Summerveld as it would be from Cape Town.
Hashtagyolo
He said: “I galloped her there last Thursday and she will go over 1 400m this Thursday. She hasn’t got the best of daws in the race (21 out of 24) and Piere Strydom will take over from Anthony Delpech who is committed to ride for Mike de Kock.”
De Kock has five in the Grade 2 with Fish River at 4-1 by far the shortest-priced of the quintet. The Paul Peter-trained Folk Dance is 7-2 second favourite with Alec Laird’s Cashel Palace next on 10-1.
World Sports Betting makes Peter’s Majestic Mambo 28-10 favourite for the Gauteng Guineas on the same card and goes 4-1 Surcharge, 6-1 Monks Hood, 7-1 Mustaaqeem, 8-1 Greek Fire, 10-1 and upwards others.
Glen Kotzen will send last Saturday’s Kenilworth mile handicap winner Luna Child to Port Elizabeth for the Breeders Guineas on 9 March before she joins the rest of his Durban team.
Also bound for Port Elizabeth is Brutal Force who holds the Kenilworth 1200m course record and showed he still has what it takes by finishing fourth in last month’s Cape Flying Championship. He has been sold by Mayfair Speculators to Braam van Huyysteen and Hedley McGrath and has joined Yvette Bremner. According to Van Huyysteen the plan is a Pinnacle followed by a tilt at the Computaform Sprint on 5 May.
However Joey Ramsden, who managed to hold on to Cape Flying fifth Attenborough, has his eyes on Scottsville’s Tsogo Sun Sprint (May 26) for the four-year-old.
Ramsden said: “I think he is well capable of winning a Grade 1 and I put some mates together to buy him.”
BLOB Whisky Baron is the highest-rated of the 12 entries for the Group 2 Zabeel Mile at Meydan on Thursday. He is on a mark of 118 with the locally-trained Championship next on 114 and Mike de Kock’s 2015 Cape Guineas winner Noah From Goa third-highest on 112.
By Michael Clower
