Silver Mountain has been raised 3kg for her five-length win in last Saturday’s World Sports Betting Cape Fillies Guineas putting her on a new merit rating of 111.

She will receive 2.5kg when she takes on the colts and geldings in the Grand Parade Cape Guineas in nine days’ time and , in theory at any rate, she has two and a half lengths in hand of the highest-rated of them, Premiers Champion winner Rabada.

Candice Robinson said yesterday: “She took her race well and, although two weeks running is a big ask, at this stage she is a runner on Saturday week.”

The handicappers upped second-placed Our Destiny a whopping 10kg to 100 after using Taffety Tart (third on 99) as the line horse. Anglet (fourth) went up 3.5kg to 98 and Bela-Bela (fifth) the same amount to 97.

Anglet is to have a break and Paddy Kruyer explained: “She raced with odd front shoes after being reshod at the start and she jarred her joints.”

Athletes often train at altitude to give them an edge when they return to near sea level and Joey Ramsden is doing the same with last month’s Amtote Merchants winner Brutal Force.

He said: “The horse will stay in Jo’burg until a week or so before the Betting World Cape Flying Championship (Jan 30). Derek Brugman is keen on this as he thinks the altitude might help the horse.”

By Michael Clower

Picture: Silver Mountain (Kenilworth Racing)