Bernard Fayd’Herbe, who has been on holiday in the Far East, can score at a good price on his first ride back in the Rawson Properties Maiden at Kenilworth tomorrow.

The Eric Sands-trained Divine Law was a 9-1 chance with World Sports Betting yesterday despite being considered good enough to make his debut in a winners’ race and putting up a good performance considering he was squeezed out shortly after the start.

He was beaten just under eight lengths – but at least three of those were caused by the initial interference and all five of those who finished in front of him were winners.

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Favourite at 13-10 is the Justin Snaith-trained Tyrian who also met with some interference at the start when fourth to Photocopy at Durbanville but returned making a noise. His previous debut fourth at Kenilworth was much more encouraging.

Dynamite Jack (9-2) is arguably the form horse as he divided More Magic and Black Indy (a winner since) and had Forty Days and Day Zero among those behind. Deposition (10-1), badly drawn at Durbanville last time, has sound place prospects on his previous debut run.

Hopefully the meeting will survive the weather. Windguru was yesterday forecasting light rain during the morning with the heavens starting to open in earnest shortly after 2.00pm

Pippielangkous is favourite for the opening Metropolitan Lodge Maiden and was a Winning Ways tip after his second to fellow newcomer Varsity Limits but the exact worth of the form is hard to assess. Significantly James Goodman qualified his advice by stipulating “when the ground firms up, not in the soft.”

Donovan Dillon’s mount gets my selection even though 11-10 is plenty short enough. The Snaith newcomer Chakri is next in the market at 22-10. Carrying the Mary Slack colours, Richard Fourie’s mount is well bred by Dynasty out of the Allan Robertson winner Rat Burana but few if any (and by my calculations none at all) of the stable’s current three-year-old crop has won first time out either this season or last season as two-year-olds.

The in-form Candice Bass-Robinson-Aldo Domeyer may take the Sons Of Hygiene Maiden with Dragon Power even though this one is only third favourite at 3-1. He has finished third in two decent-sized Kenilworth fields whereas Snaith’s Rip It Up ran at Durbanville when no closer than third on his only start and fellow 16-10 favourite Shadowing has proved consistent but frustrating, finishing second or third in the last five of his six starts.

By Michael Clower