The BMW Politician winner Doublemint has been installed 2-1 favourite to give Justin Snaith his third consecutive winner of the Highlands Stud Winter Derby at Kenilworth on Saturday. Leading Vodacom Durban July contenders Elusive Silva and African Night Sky were the other two.

Rock My Soul

World Sports Betting also goes 4-1 Rock My Soul and Spring Man, 9-2 Ancestry, 7-1 Love Happens, 14-1 Ballad Of The Sea, Power Tower, 20-1 Cape Extreme, 25-1 Pacific Chestnut and Man About Town.

The Joey Ramsden-trained Fresnaye, who side-stepped the race to stick to her own sex in the Winter Oaks, is odds-on at 13-20 while the unbeaten Vaughan Marshall-trained One World heads the Langerman market at 18-10 and Santa Clara is also 18-10 favourite for the Irridiscence.

Punters have been waiting for Brave Move for the last two months because she keeps winning with something in hand and Aldo Domeyer’s mount is 5-2 favourite to make it five in a row in the Ladies Mile.

BLOB Yesterday’s meeting at Durbanville had to be abandoned shortly after 9.00am following 19mm of rain that left parts of the course waterlogged.

By Michael Clower