Trainers Alan Greeff and Gavin Smith have been slugging it out all season and both can get their fair share of winners on the turf track at Fairview on Friday
The Alan Greeff-Richard Fourie combination can get things started with My Best Shot in Race 3, the Sophomore Plate over 1400m.
The Fire Away gelding has won five of his 11 starts and has four wins in just five starts over this course and distance. Fourie has been aboard him for four of those wins, having ridden him in 10 of those starts.
My Best Shot was a bitter failure in his penultimate start, over 1600m on the Fairview Polytrack 1600m but made amends for that with his most impressive win to date when threshing them last time out over the same track and trip.
Only five runners take him on but two of them have some class about them too.
Golden Link, trained by Sharon Kotzen, and has three wins in his 11 starts. It is worth noting he was 2.75lengths behind My Best Shot when they met over this course and distance in September and is now 2.5kg worse off.
Golden Ruler, the Kelly Mitchley-trained colt, made his debut in a smart field at Kenilworth and was not disgraced when finishing fourth.
He impressed when scoring in his second start over 1200m at Fairview.
That was back in March and the next we saw of him was in July when he took a shot in Group 2 company in the Golden Horseshoe over 1400m at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Durban July day. But, after suffering interference, he dropped away to finish well beaten.
He returns from a 195-day break but would not be a surprise winner with jockey Muzi Yeni in the irons.
Mr Maloney runs in a competitive Race 6, a MR 68 Handicap over 1600m. The six-year-old gelding won on local debut for trainer Gavin Smith and has not been disgraced in his three starts since then
He clearly found 2000m a step or two too far last time out. Back on the turf and over this distance he can keep rolling to score.
Clive Robinson
