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Anton Marcus, only seven behind log leader Greg Cheyne on the current national list, has almost carte blanche when it comes to picking rides – and that mostly the plums. He has a current winning strike rate of 27% or every fourth ride a winner and after a treble on Wednesday he should add to his tally at Greyville this evening where he again has a competitive card.

With stable rider Sean Veale doing duty for the yard in Cape Town for the summer, Dennis Drier has again booked Marcus for stable hope Well In Flight for the Pendulum Insurance Brokers River Indigo Handicap that heads up the card – all races on the poly track.

After a string of narrow defeats on the Scottsville turf, Well In Flight was switched to the poly for her last start and with immediate success, scooting home by over two lengths. The opposition this evening is stronger but Well In Flight is smart and from a good draw should be right there.

Sean Tarry holds a strong hand and stable rider S’Manga Khumalo has made the trip down from the Highveld for the evening He partners Strategic News ahead of top weight In Other Words and could possibly be the stable elect. Strategic News has excellent form on the poly and was possibly just short of an outing when third in a strong field. The rise in trip will hold no fears and from a good draw with a handy galloping weight she will be a strong contender.

In Other Words has a fair weight to shoulder but is at best over course and distance. She finished a neck clear of Strategic News when the two met behind Aliysa’s Prize and is now 1kg better off in the handicap. However, the latter has some improvement to make and appeals as the better option.

Aliysa’s Prize beat a strong field on her poly debut and is much better than her last turf effort under an inexperienced apprentice. Stuart Randolph is back aboard from a good draw and she too must have a chance. Persian Rug makes her poly debut with the blinkers back on. She is a big horse and the poly could bring out the best in her.

The more one looks at the race the more difficult it gets but Well In Flight is taken to get home ahead of Strategic News and In Other Words with Alisya’s Prize a major threat.

The handicappers haven’t taken any chances with Mike Miller’s filly Call Me Winter in the last race on the card, the Nesai Tyres Handicap, banging her up the full eight points for her last win.  That may not be enough!

The home-bred daughter of Western Winter had shown promise as a juvenile, winning her first two without any fuss. A Listed feature brought her winning run to an end and she was not seen out again for three months. On return she was never in the hunt in a tough handicap field but that allowed her to start at generous odds next time out, the handicappers also taken in, dropping her three pounds.

Miller has his charge her a difficult task with 64.5kg to shoulder from the worst of the draw but she could still be under the radar as far as the ratings go.

If not then the father and son pair of Just Vogue and Poster Girl could give plenty of cheek. Gavin van Zyl saddles Just Vogue who has yet to finish out of the money in eight starts, most recently winning over the Scottsville short-cut wearing blinkers. She is drawn on the opposite side of the course to Call Me Winter and the better draw and a 4,5kg pull in the weights make her a solid contender.

Son Gareth sends out Poster Girl who has her third run after a break and should strip close to her peak although she does look a bit high in the ratings.

Van Zyl senior should get Pick 6 punters off to a good start with Momo in the third. She has gone close over course and distance and did well in blinkers last outing. She rates the one to beat as the balance are seriously average.

Similarly, Savannah Cat in the next will be a popular banker. Although she has been disappointing.  she looks worth another chance in a weak maiden field. Of the others, Mariuccia Blue showed some improvement at her second outing on the poly and also found some market support so could be a threat.

Andrew Harrison

Forbes and Forbes treble

Husband and wife combination of Alec and Lezeanne Forbes were in top form at Greyville yesterday and possibly set something of a record for a husband and wife team, winning three races. Their meeting got off to the perfect start as Toonani returned from a break of over a year to run out an easy winner of the first.

The five-year-old has faced stronger than what he met yesterday but it is seldom that horses returning from such a long break come back fit enough to win. But not only did Toonani win, but he defied his 14-1 odds and drew off to win as he liked.

Jay Jay’s Girl was even more impressive in the Child Protection Maiden Plate although there was no guessing this time as she started 5-4 favourite. The daughter of Jay Peg revelled over the extra ground and scooted home by six lengths.

The couple rounded off their afternoon with the consistent Tanami winning the second race of her career in which she has only finished out of the money once in nine starts. She too started favourite in the Candy Pop Entertainment Handicap, beating home a useful field and holding off Vogue Idea and Velvet Wind.

It was a good afternoon for punters with a number of favourites obliging. The Alistair Gordon-trained Andermatt (1-3) looked hard to beat in the second and she duly obliged although Anton Marcus was forced to earn his riding fee.

Similarly, Paul Gadsby’s runner Patroclus (15-20) finally got his act together and won at cramped odds with the Forbes-trained Sweet Refrain kicking on strongly for second.

The Gr1 Grand Parade Cape Guineas is the highlight of the weekend and although Palladium and Marshall That are not up to that class, the two three-year-olds were expected to give a good account of themselves in the Children’s Christmas Wishes Handicap over 1600m.

Both were a spent force shortly after entering the straight leaving Capel Top and Silver Spring to fight out affairs with Capel Top (9-1) getting the upper hand close home under Morne Winnaar for Dean Kannemeyer.

Anton Marcus cut into Greg Cheyne’s lead on the national jockey log with a treble. He started his run on Andermatt and then finally got Air Chief Marshal (5-2) to break his run of beaten favourite tags as he produced Candice Bass-Robinson’s runner with a telling late run to beat home a fast-finishing First Apostle and The Poet.

Marcus rounded off his afternoon with a smart ride on Gareth van Zyl’s runner Calabash (14-10). Up with the pace throughout, Marcus made his move on the turn, skipping clear of Shine Up, who on form looked his biggest danger. However, Shine Up was soon a spent force and Calabash drew off to win as he liked.

Andrew Harrison

Table Bay tops Guineas boards

Table Bay has been installed favourite with World Sports Betting to give Joey Ramsden his third Grand Parade Cape Guineas win in six seasons at Kenilworth on Saturday.

Table Bay (Liesl King)

Table Bay (Liesl King)

Anton Marcus’s mount opened at 7-2 on Monday evening and then eased slightly to 4-1. Mike de Kock’s challenger Heavenly Blue is second favourite at 6-1 with Zodiac Ruler next on 13-2.

Other prices are: 7-1 Singapore Sling; 8-1 Gold Standard; 10-1 Africa Rising; 11-1 William Longsword; 12-1 Gunner, Edict Of Nantes, Bishop’s Bounty; 16-1 Craven; 18-1 Hack Green; 25-1 A New Dawn; 40-1 Elusive Path; 50-1 Elevated, Pacific Spirit.

Meanwhile, Marinaresco, second in the Vodacom Durban July and winner of the Champions Cup, is favourite to reverse last weekend’s Green Point placings with Horse Of The Year Legal Eagle in the Sun Met at Kenilworth on 28 January.

Betting World opened the four-year-old at 16-10 and now have him at 17-10 while World Sports Betting quotes him at 19-10. Legal Eagle is 22-10 second favourite with both firms.

Latest betting: – Betting World / World Sports Betting

Marinaresco 17-10 / 19-10

Legal Eagle 22-10 / 22-10

Heavenly Blue 10-1 / 16-1

Bela-Bela 14-1 / 14-1

Whisky Baron 14-1 / 20-1

Master Sabina 16-1 / 20-1

French Navy 18-1 / 20-1

It’s My Turn 20-1 / 20-1

The Conglomerate 20-1 / 16-1

Abashiri 25-1 / 28-1

Baritone 25-1 / 33-1

Black Arthur 25-1 / 25-1

Brazuca 25-1 / 25-1

Captain America 25-1 / 20-1

Al Fahad 33-1 / 40-1

Bold Rex 33-1 / 40-1

Mac De Lago 33-1 / 33-1

Deo Juvenete 40-1 / 40-1

New Predator 40-1 / 50-1

Zodiac Ruler 40-1 / 33-1

Cape Speed 66-1 / 50-1

Nebula 66-1 / 75-1

Mambo Mime 100-1 / 50-1

Rocketball 100-1 / 100-1

Dynamic 150-1 / 150-1

Parachute Man 150-1 / 200-1

St Tropez 150-1 / 150-1

Macduff 500-1 / 330-1

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Bernard Fayd'Herbe (Nkosi Hlophe)

Fayd’Herbe to ride Craven

Three years ago Brett Crawford won the Grand Parade Cape Guineas with Elusive Gold for a client of Hong Kong-based trainer Tony Millard and at Kenilworth on Saturday he bids to stage a repeat with Craven.

This colt, who carries the colours of YH Yue (known in Hong Kong simply as Mr Yue), has started at a short price in all his four starts. Millard and the owner have been intent on having a top jockey throughout, with Andrew Fortune committing himself for all the horse’s races this season.

Bernard Fayd'Herbe (Nkosi Hlophe)

Bernard Fayd’Herbe (Nkosi Hlophe)

Fortune’s injury changed that, so Anthony Delpech was booked for the Guineas – only to break his collarbone. Now Bernard Fayd’Herbe, who won on Elusive Gold, flies in from Dubai.

Crawford also runs Selangor runner-up Edict Of Nantes, who will be ridden by stable jockey Corne Orffer.

A New Dawn, who made the running in the Selangor, has the same job, only faster, for probable favourite Table Bay, hence the decision to supplement him.

“We want a very strong pace so that Table Bay can sit further back,” said Mayfair Speculators’ racing manager Derek Brugman.

Glen Kotzen is bullish about the chance of Selangor winner Gold Standard, saying: “He is doing great and absolutely flying. He has cracked at decent draw (No 7) and we are very excited. Look at the time of the Selangor (less than a second outside Legislate’s course record). It was a proper-run race.”

A notable absentee is Our Mate Art, who now has the Investec Cape Derby as his target.

“He got a very hard knock when he was cut into in the Selangor. We had him x-rayed and found he had chipped a piece of splint bone,” said Candice Bass-Robinson. “He is on antibiotics at the moment but he is in light work.”

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Be with Baltia

Baltia makes a lot of appeal at 11-2 in the Welcome To Kenilworth Maiden at Kenilworth tomorrow, particularly as her recent home work has been good.

Although a four-year-old, she did not make her debut until four weeks ago when she started fourth favourite in a field of 18 and finished best of all to take third to Ngaga.  Igugu’s half-sister has franked the form by winning again since.

Usually horses who do not run until they are four have had injury problems that can make them unreliable but there are grounds for believing that this won’t apply so much with Greg Cheyne’s mount.

“She was sore in a bone in her hind leg and the soreness wouldn’t go away,” explains Ridgemont manager Craig Carey. “Rather than resort to drugs, we left her alone on the farm and let her grow out of it.”

That ultra-patient policy could start paying dividends today because Brett Crawford, who took her over in July, reports: “She is working well and she looks as if she has come on.”

She will be opposed by eight of those that ran against her on debut including Class Protector (second), Dance At Dawn (fourth), Eternal Light (fifth), Dark Goddess (sixth) and Field Of Light (seventh).

The last-named is trained by Dennis Drier and has been backed from 11-2 to 9-2 favourite with World Sports Betting. She has two lengths to find with Baltia but she was forced to switch last time. However Baltia has an in-built three length advantage over most of the opposition because this is a level weights race and, as a four-year-old, she should be conceding 4kg under the weight-for-age scale.

Eternal Night (12-1) lost ground at the start when making her debut and was less than a length behind Baltia. “She is quite hot and she was pretty ready first time,” says Eric Sands. “She is not without a chance but she wants a lot further.”

Class Protector (10-1) was three-quarters of a length in front of Baltia but that was her fourth appearance so she has less scope for improvement.  Dance At Dawn has gone on to finish second in a work riders’ and is a 10-1 chance.

Another to be wary of is 12-1 newcomer Love To Boogie. “She is quite classy and she has had enough work,” says Andre Nel. “But she holds her condition and is still fairly fat.”

Boldly Respectable, backed from 13-2 to 5-1 for race two, has since been scratched but this 1 400m handicap is wide open and you can make a case for almost all six runners. Brilliant Crimson, dropped a point since last time when he ran a bit below his best, gets only a tentative vote at 28-10.

Rubyana may confirm last month’s form with Jack And Jill in the 2 000m maiden. The Burger-Van Reenen partnership has four of the seven in the Racing Association Maiden but odds-on Sea Pass looks the one.

Michael Clower

johan janse van vuuren

Negroamaro to get her turn

Hopefully the evening thunder storms accompanied by terrific lightning that have disrupted recent night meetings at Turfffontein hold off tomorrow night where the mostly luckless Negroamaro should be good enough to earn her third career victory in the All To Come Conditions Plate, second race on the card.

Johan Janse van Vuuren looks to have picked the right race for his filly and victory would snap a long history of near misses. She has yet to score a victory this term but in three outings has met the likes of Querari Falcon, Tahini and most recently Intergalactic and Tahini in the Gr2 Ipi Tombe Challenge. Under the conditions of tomorrow’s race she is well weighted and although likely to start at cramped odds, a change of fortune would not be out of turn for the grey daughter of Fort Wood.

Patchit Up Baby falls into a similar category having paid a heavy price for her third place in the SA Oaks two seasons’ back where she took a 19-point hit in the ratings for finishing a distant third to Pine Princess. She has been shuttled back and forth between Duncan Howells in KZN and Ormond Ferraris on the Highveld searching for a third victory but in nearly two seasons her rating has only dropped five points and she has been winless since February 2015.

She meets Negroamaro on level terms tomorrow where she is only a length or so out in the handicap and few would begrudge her victory.

Fort Ember is not well in with Negroamaro but did finish ahead of her in the Ipi Tombe Challenge and cannot be written off. However, the former is now 4kg better off and should be good enough to turn the tables. Zante has her first outing for the Geoff Woodruff yard and has been rested since moving from Neil Bruss who is no plying his trade in Saudi Arabia. She is useful on her day but may prefer it a bit further.

With only seven runners due to line up, a false pace is on the cards but Negroamaro is capable of a sprinting finish and she is a confident selection.

The balance of the card is way more testing headed by a Pinnacles Stakes over 1160m that sees the return to the track of French Navy. The former SA Classic winner has not been out since finishing down the field in the Gr1 Vodacom Durban July but prior to that was third to Mac De Lago and stable companion Trip To Heaven in the Gr1 Rising Sun Gold Challenge. Sean Tarry will more than likely have French Navy’s sights on the Gr1 Sun Met as this race is palpably too short.

A likely winner is Captain Aldo in what is a difficult race. St John Gray’s runner is not quite out of the top drawer but has shown good form in strong company. He is also a veteran of 30 starts and the fitting of blinkers got the best out of him to win his last start. If he can build on that he can go in again.  Will Pays was well beaten by Captain Aldo last time out but has done better and should not be far behind. Captain’s Causeway is lightly raced and returns from a lengthy break. He does have smart form in good company and could return at the top of his game. Splendid Garden was much improved in the soft last outing and any rain will enhance his chances while Arabian Beat returns from a very long break but comes from a shrewd stable and is one to watch in the market.

Just A Jet in the fifth is sure to be a popular exotic bet banker and likely to start at cramped odds. She meets a desperate maiden field with a highest rating of 49. A late starter, Mike Azzie’s runner made a smart debut first up over 2000m. She was a distant third from a tough draw next time out. She meets nothing of note here and looks a solid bet. The only threat is possibly Vogue’s Wood. Although she looks held by Just A Jet on their last showing she was not too far back and could possibly turn the tables.

Andrew Harrison

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“Obviously the 4am to 12.30am schedule is dependent on the availability of suitable international products and inevitably there will be days when there is simply insufficient product to fill the schedule,” said Phumelela Betting Executive Vee Moodley.

The Tote is looking to expand the live racing timeframe from 4am to 2am the following day, but is still in the process of sourcing suitable international product in order to provide betting opportunities 22 hours daily.

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Mr Winsome (Nkosi Hlophe)

No soft concerns for Mr Winsome

Most of the country has been crying out for a drop of rain but Scottsville has had more than its fair share, especially when it comes just before a race meeting.

With most of yesterday afternoon dogged by persistent drizzle, the ninth and last race was carried over to the next Scottsville meeting after jockeys complained of poor visibility and the meeting was called off after the running of the final Gold Circle Witness KZN Summer Challenge race.

Mr Winsome (Nkosi Hlophe)

Mr Winsome (Nkosi Hlophe)

In an effort to finish the meeting the jockeys were asked to keep off the inside running rail and on the better going, which they did. But the mud continued to fly pushing the field wide into the home straight.

Many battled in the sticky going, not so Mr Winsome who revelled in the conditions. Coming from off the pace and hard up against the outside rail, Dean Kannemeyer’s runner rattled home under Alec Forbes to win as he liked from the hard-knocking Frikkie.

The meeting started off well for punters but as conditions deteriorated, so did the results with a number of hard luck stories included.

Magical Bet came out on top in the mud-fight that was the Summer Challenge 1600m final to continue Glen Kotzen’s current hot streak, the 20-1 chance edging home ahead of Run Rhino Run and a decidedly unlucky Caribbean Day. The runner-up lent hard on the eventual winner who in turn cut across the bows of Caribbean Day who was making what could have been a winning run.

The stipendiary stewards were not convinced and there was no call for a race review.

Monte Christo was pegged by Alistair Gordon as a horse with a future early in his career but has since moved to Charles Laird where he has won two of his four starts for the yard including the 1200m KZN Challenge final. Listening to Anton Marcus the gelding is obviously a bit of an under achiever. “I should probably say this quietly,” he confided, “but his work at home is Group one quality. He just doesn’t bring it to the racetrack.” Blinkers obviously helped yesterday as he got the better of a tough fight with Roy’s Marciano and Highway Explorer.

Marcus was in top form ahead of his date with Table Bay in the Gr1 Grand West Cape Guineas on Saturday, booting home four winners including Kom Naidoo’s Trini’s Var Hyt in the card opener, deputising for Anthony Delpech who took a fall at The Vaal during the week.

Most impressive winner on the day was the Duncan Howells-trained and Dave McLean-owned Wild Wicket in the third. Running first time as a gelding he stretched away from his rivals to win as he liked and looks to have some scope.

By Andrew Harrison

Donovan Dillon (Nkosi Hlophe)

Expect hot pace in Guineas

Saturday’s Grand Parade Cape Guineas looks like being run at a searching gallop as the Mayfair Speculators team try to tee things up for probable favourite Table Bay.

Supplementary entry A New Dawn, who made the running in the Selangor, is to do the same job only faster and Derek Brugman said: “We want a very strong pace so that he (Table Bay) can sit further back.”

Table Bay (Liesl King)

Table Bay (Liesl King)

Anton Marcus, whose previous winning partners include Jay Peg and Variety Club, reckoned he might have sat too close too the pace in last month’s test.

But I Travel Light, the third Ramsden runner and only first reserve at the moment, was put into the race last Wednesday because he had gone close to Selangor winner Gold Standard on the latter’s previous start at Fairview.

Glen Kotzen, though, is bullish about Gold Standard’s chance and his optimism is buoyed by both the stable’s present form – two more winners on Saturday – and that of the colt’s jockey. Richard Fourie followed up Friday’s Fairview four-timer with three more on Saturday – one for Kotzen and two for Shane Humby.

Kotzen said: “Gold Standard is doing great and absolutely flying. He has cracked at decent draw (seven) and we are very excited. Look at the time of the Selangor (less than second outside Legislate’s course record). It was a proper-run race.”

But there are some notable absentees from the Guineas – in particular Our Mate Art and Grade 1 winner Always In Charge with Vaughan Marshall reporting about the latter: “He was never going to run drawn 19 – I wasn’t going to risk him.”

Real Princess (Nkosi Hlophe)

Real Princess (Nkosi Hlophe)

Plans are “undecided” but Our Mate Art has the Investec Cape Derby as his new target. “He got a very hard knock when he was cut into in the Selangor. We had him x-rayed and found he had chipped a piece of splint bone,” said Candice Bass-Robinson who reports that Sun Met favourite Marinaresco is fine after his great Green Point run. “Our Mate Art is on antibiotics at the moment but he is in light work.”

Carry On Alice pleased Sean Tarry after failing by only half a length to peg back 22-1 all-the-way scorer Jo’s Bond in the CTS Southern Cross Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday.

“I thought she might just need it,” said the champion trainer. “There are two races for her before the Cape Flying Championship – the Diadem and the Sceptre – but I just might leave it at this. We will see.”

Real Princess, only fifth, goes for the Sceptre on January 6 when Dean Kannemeyer believes that the extra furlong will be just what she needs. Grant Behr reported: “I was right behind the winner but mine was then caught a bit flat-footed. She needs the 1 200m.”

Justin Snaith dismissed all suggestions of a Sceptre rematch with the winner, saying: “Jo’s Bond is a 1 000m horse and that is the trip she likes,” but rider Donovan Dillon came up with the quote of the day – “The Snaiths have often given me a bone but luckily there was a bit of meat on this one.”

Donovan Dillon (Nkosi Hlophe)

Donovan Dillon (Nkosi Hlophe)

Tarry has a string of 12 at Milnerton including two-year-olds and the first of these to run at Kenilworth was Jay Peg’s half-brother Barrack Street who readily justified 18-10 favouritism under S’Manga Khumalo in the Snaith Racing Maiden. “We can now get a line,” commented Tarry.

The Vaughan Marshall Racing Maiden Juvenile took more than four minutes to load with Jacinda, and Lacerta in particular, increasingly threatening to upset the others and afterwards Derek Brugman issued a heartfelt plea to the starter, saying: “You can’t have juveniles standing in the pens for nearly five minutes – that can ruin a horse’s whole career. It should be two tries and ‘sorry, that’s it.’”

Most owners and trainers will, I am sure, take the same view. Dennis Drier, who won the race with the heavily-backed and appropriately named Bank On It (Sean Veale), confirmed that Miss Frankel is on target to make her much-awaited debut next month.

There are three Frankel fillies and a colt in next month’s CTS Cape Premier Yearling Sale. All are from Southern Hemisphere coverings and are sold by Klawervlei whose boss John Koster said: “We bought the mares in the UK, put them in foal and then brought them out here. “ Klawervlei are also selling ten Rock Of Gibraltar yearlings plus a filly by the now-dead American sire sensation Scat Daddy.

By Michael Clower

First Timer Comments Scottsville Sunday

SUNDAY 11 DECEMBER SCOTTSVILLE FIRST TIMER COMMENTS

MIKE MILLER
Race 1 – ARGO MAGIC (1): A nice horse – shows plenty at home.
Race 1 – ROYAL EXPLORER (2): Is very quick but I think could be a bit green.
Race 3 – HERE COMES BOB (12): Will need the experience but does have a good draw and is showing me nice work at home.
Race 3 – MIDNIGHT MAN (13): Shows good work at home but does have a bit of a bad draw to overcome.

DOUG CAMPBELL
Race 1 – THE GREY CRUSADER (3):
A nice horse – will more than likely need the experience and needs gelding. I am hoping he runs a place.

KOM NAIDOO
Race 1 – UNCLE RONNIE (4):
A nice horse, if not too green, will run into the money.
Race 1 – TRINI’S VAR HYT (7): Speedy, if not too green, will run a good race.

LOWAN DENYSSCHEN
Race 2 – LITTLE MISS JET (9):
A small filly but she tries very hard. I am hoping she runs a reasonable race.

YOGAS GOVENDER
Race 2 – LOVE LYRIC (10):
Trainer could not be contacted for comment.

MICHAEL ROBERTS
Race 2 – PINK PALACE (12):
Too short and will improve with this run under the belt.

CHRIS ERASMUS
Race 1 – EASY PEASY (5):
Will be green and need the run.

LIZANNE FORBES
Race 1 – PURDEY (6):
Trainer could not be contacted for comment.
Race 2 – ROY IS FIRST (13): Trainer could not be contacted for comment.

PAUL GADSBY
Race 2 – DIAMONDS FOREVER (7):
A nice filly but is a bit mad! If she gets to the start she will have a chance but she is a difficult filly and not easy to ride.
Race 2 – SARABI (14): A very nice filly (a half-sister to Miss Varlicious) but she will probably need just one run!

WAYNE BADENHORST
Race 2 – FASHION DISPLAY (8):
A nice filly – showing some nice work at home and if not too green and the distance too short, she could win!

WENDY WHITEHEAD
Race 2 – SPIRIT BIRD (16):
Has some speed and will run well if she is not in too much need of the run.
Race 3 – DINO’S DELIGHT (10): He needs further, closer to 2000m.

CRAIG EUDEY
Race 3 – SIGHT DRAFT (4):
A nice horse but I am expecting him to be a bit green.

MARK DIXON
Race 3 – PRIME SUSPECT (14):
A nice horse but will need the experience.
Race 4 – RAPUNZEL (13): Will need further.

DES EGDES
Race 4 – FIRST ANTHEM (11):
Will be green, looking for further but she is a classic type filly, a nice filly but will need racing experience.