There is an eight-race programme at Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Saturday and both Justin Snaith and Glen Kotzen have strong form runners and could be the trainers to follow.
Snaith sends out two royally bred horses who could finally reward followers while Kotzen has the best bet on the card.
Good For You who runs in Race 2, a Maiden Juvenile Plate over 1250m, stands out as the banker on the day. The Legislate gelding earlier showed fair potential over 1000m, a distance that looked short considering his pedigree and then was beaten in a close finish by Vaughan Marshall’s smart colt Dreamworld over the more suitable 1200m.
The latter has since come out to run a cracking second in the Cape Racing Sales Slipper behind Military Command and had classy Black Cheetah and Clair De Lune among others beaten.
Good For You went on to run fourth in the Grade 3 Cape Of Good Hope Nursery. It is strong form but keep an eye out for the first-timers, although it will take a hot sort to beat him.
Kotzen-trained filly Golden Angel started off her career in decent style, running third behind Mai Sensation who dominated a good field last weekend. She went on to win with a powerful finish thereafter but then seemed to battle through a few assignments and those races looked to have to come too soon.
She is running in a wide-open 1400m heat but is taking a steep drop in class in Race 5, a Class 5 Handicap, where she is taking on males but could nevertheless be a cut above her field.
Snaith has already had a great season so far in the Western Cape which culminated in his winning the Grade 1 World Sports Betting Cape Town Met with exciting colt Eight On Eighteen who then went on to capture the Grade 1 Splashout Cape Derby.
But in Races 4 and 6 respectively he sends out two more three-year-olds that could be under the radar. Powerandtheglory is a gelded Gimmethegreenlight half-brother to Snaith’s Cape Guineas and Met hero Double Superlative, but while he came home an impressive winner in his second start he didn’t step up on that.
Nevertheless, he has not finished far off Eric Sand-trained Gallic Dream and in his last start, his first after gelding, he seemed to settle better and made some progress. He has been given the best of the draws in Race 4, a B Stakes, and it could be his time to stake his claim for the upcoming big races.
The same can be said of Regulation who could be hard to beat in Race 6, a Class 4 Handicap. He is related to Snaith’s well-handicapped Durban July winner Belgarion and he has won more races, admittedly when not fancied. But he was heavily fancied when unlucky in his last two. It is obvious that he is also showing a lot more now matured.
Clive Robinson
