Not On My Watch can make her experience tell in the Signal Hill Rotary Club Maiden Juvenile at Kenilworth tomorrow.

The Glen Kotzen filly is the only one to have raced and, while she was understandably not in the same league as the Grade 1-bound Cloth Of Cloud, she ran well enough to suggest that it will take a smart newcomer to beat her.

Justin Snaith, who has no runner, heads the Cape Town two-year-old log with five winners and Mike Bass (three) is the only other trainer with more than one. His pair include the R2 million Var filly Wake Up Maggie whose dam won seven.

“I think she will run well but Whose That Girl is quite quick and shows a bit of speed,” says Candice Robinson. “They have both been for a gallop whereas Tuesday’s winner Bombs Away hadn’t.”

Greg Ennion likes Gypsy Beauty who debuts in the Eighth Wonder colours. “If I had been able to give her a grass gallop she would not get beat,” he says. “But I couldn’t as I don’t have the advantage that the big stables have.”

Andre Nel missed out on what looked a certain winner with Jingle Belle on Tuesday but he has good prospects of taking races two and three. Leisure Trip only just failed to land the odds when delivered with a strong challenge last time when she had Abound West, Meritocracy and Barbara Anne behind. She has Sharp Peg to beat in the Reynolds Group Maiden.

Mini Loushe also has a favourite’s chance in the Shumani Mills Maiden as he would have finished a lot closer on debut had he got off on terms and not had to contend with a slipping saddle. But his task is not so straightforward because the first-time blinkered Zud Wes and Gyre also have claims. The latter was brushed by the third when fourth last time. “He is a big strong horse,” says Adam Marcus, discounting hard luck claims. “But he may just have needed it and he has been working very well.”

Stockade should be hard to beat in the Steve Phelps Memorial Maiden as she had La Flambee four lengths behind when they last met despite meeting with slight interference. The pair re-oppose on the same terms but La Flambee has since shown improvement. “We found the way she should be ridden – she has to be given a chance – and she improved a hell of a lot,” says Marcus.

Garden Tea Party, who went close over 200m further, and the consistent Ichkeria also come into the picture.

By Michael Clower

Picture: Glen Kotzen