Justin Snaith will gallop African Night Sky at 11.30am – an hour before racing -at Kenilworth on Saturday in order to put the Winter Series winner on track for the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate and the Sun Met. The stable’s carefully mapped-out plans were thwarted when the Jet Master Stakes was postponed until February.

African Night Sky (Michael Price)

Snaith said yesterday: “He will work over 1 400m with Elusive Silva (Grant van Niekerk) and the relative weights of the two jockeys works out well because I am looking for a bit of gut-buster for African Night Sky.”

In the meantime Snaith is hoping that his recent rich vein of form holds for Saturday’s Forus Cape Guineas in which he has 7-1 shot Do It Again as well as 12-1 chance Sir Frenchie and 25-1 outsider Cot Campbell.

He said: “We are in a good place with the horses at the moment and Do It Again (Fayd’Herbe) did a good gallop last week. We have been waiting for the longer run-in with him because he always comes from too far back and he found trouble in the straight in the Selangor. Had it not been for that I think he would have won.

“Having Callan Murray will help Sir Frenchie’s chances. The horse is well and enjoying his racing but I just wonder if he is good enough to win the Guineas. Only the race will tell.

“Cot Campbell (Van Niekerk)  has twice found trouble on the inside fence. He had to switch out and he wasn’t beaten far in the Cape Classic or the Ready To Run. He galloped particularly well last week – actually it surprised me how well he did work – and it was certainly good enough for him to be a contender.”

By Michael Clower