Miss Katalin looks good to get back on the winning trail in the Supabets Progress Plate at Kenilworth on Saturday.
The Justin Snaith filly is something of a specialist over this 1 400m trip and won both the valuable Lanzerac Ready To Run and a conditions plate before taking third to Elusive Heart in the Vasco Prix Du Cap after losing as much ground as she was beaten by dawdling out of the pens.
Bernard Fayd’Herbe (Liesl King)
According to the sahorseracing computer she will win by five lengths!
Just about the only certainty is that she won’t score by anything like as much as this.
Snaith hates seeing his horses prejudicing their ratings by winning too far and, partly for this reason, they are seldom asked to make the running.
Bernard Fayd’Herbe takes over from Grant van Niekerk who switches to the other Drakenstein runner Platinum Class, on a hat-trick and a winner over the trip on Met day.
She went up six points for that but she should not be far away.
On adjusted ratings, though, the danger is most likely to come from Robert Khathi’s mount Rings And Things who is well treated by the conditions and theoretically has more than a length in hand.
She was third in the CTS 1600 after finishing ninth in the Fillies Guineas.
Stable jockey Aldo Domeyer rides Freedom Charter who had a rough passage when only tenth in the CTS race.
As so often at this stage of the season, the most intriguing races on the card are the juvenile events and in the first Fabian looks the one they all have to beat.
The Candice Bass-Robinson runner lost ground at the start when beaten five lengths by the ill-fated Zinedine on debut and holds Tarsus and Pearly Rock on that run.
Indeed the computer predicts Fabian to win from Tarsus with the rest five lengths and more behind but it’s worth noting that Seventh Sea suffered some interference when disappointing in the Kuda Sprint while Perfect Symmetry is sure to have improved from his first run.
In race three Frozen Tune has the sort of consistent form that often proves best in Kenilworth maidens but, while Dean Kannemeyer has snapped up Bernard Fayd’Herbe for the promising Never Fear, stable companion Seattle Kid showed better form on his only start and gets the nod.
Belinda Haytread of Pocket Power fame gets a rare chance to show her talent in the Work Riders Maiden and Cradleofgratitude is taken to win while in race four Due Volte may just get the better of Streetfighting Man who has been off for almost three months.
By Michael Clower
– Warren Lenferna gave five winners out of eight at Durbanville last Saturday, showing a profit of R135.50 to a R10 level stake.
