Riaan van Reenen will run Tuesday’s Kenilworth winner Midnight Moonlight in the WSB Cape Fillies Guineas on 2 December if she makes the cut but the Philippi trainer is worried she might not.

Mambo Mime

The daughter of Jay Peg has finished in the first two in all four starts but she went into the Interbet Handicap with a rating of only 85 and, as she only won by a length and a quarter, she is unlikely to be rated much higher than 90.

Van Reenen said: “I don’t want to run her again before the Fillies Guineas because that would mean her having three runs inside five weeks. What messed up my plans was the switching of two Kenilworth meetings to Durbanville and I didn’t want to run her there.”

Dean Kannemeyer, on the other hand, is looking for the easiest race possible for Mambo Mime’s next start. The five-year-old twice came close to death earlier in the year, first with a thrombosis and then with an attack of colic so bad that he had to have an operation to survive.

Kannemeyer said: “He has been to hell and back but he is a tough bastard and he has pulled up sound in his two races since. He ran well in Last Winter’s race at Durbanville and I now want to go the softer route. I need to find an easy race that he can win to get his confidence back, maybe a Pinnacle although everybody seems to have the same idea about those races at the moment.”

Mambo Mime has some good form to his credit including third in the Daily News and the Canon Guineas. He was considered good enough to run in last year’s Durban July and this year’s Sun Met.

By Michael Clower