Justin Snaith has snapped up Piere Strydom for Legislate in the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate on January 9. The six-time champion won the 2012 race for him on Gimmethegreenlight.

Legislate, winner of last year’s Vodacom Durban July, started odds-on for last season’s Queen’s Plate but finished last. He was found to be suffering from a virus and has not raced since finishing third to stable companion Futura in the Champions Cup at the beginning of August.

Snaith said: “Legislate is doing very well. I gave him a racecourse gallop last Wednesday, he went with a nice horse and won the gallop. He will have another next Tuesday.

“My only regret is that I couldn’t run him in the Diadem but that race is now too close to the Queen’s Plate.”

The Mike de Kock-trained Noah From Goa, winner of last Saturday’s Grand Parade Cape Guineas, is the only three-year-old among the 23 entries for the Queen’s Plate. The handicappers raised him 1.5kg to 111 for his classic win.

They left second-placed Brazuca unchanged on 109 but raised the Hong Kong-bound Nassa 6.5kg to 109 for finishing third. Silver Mountain (fourth) was left on 111 while Victorius Jay (fifth) was put up 3.5kg to 104.

Ken Nicol, commenting on Silver Mountain, said: “She might not have run up to her very best but the race was only two weeks after the Fillies Guineas and she did find a little bit of trouble in running.”

Silver Mountain was reported by the course vet to have suffered a cut on her right hind in the race but Candice Robinson said yesterday that she is fine.

By Michael Clower