It looks simple for Snaith

Snaith is likely to be on course at Turffontein on Saturday as he has already declared Grade 1 Cape Flying Championship winner Rio Querari as a definite starter for the Grade 1 Computaform Sprint over 1000m. The official declarations for all the races will be announced today.

Simply Complicated, a three-year-old daughter of Twice Over, runs in a Maiden Plate for fillies and mares over 2000m. While she has had quite a few chances, the addition of cheekpieces in her penultimate run, which were replaced by blinkers last time, have resulted in a marked improvement on her performances. 

Two runs back Simply Complicated went down just 0.35 lengths to Panna Cotta and last time she was beaten into second again but was just 0.50 lengths behind Good Girl. These races were over 1900m and 1800m respectively on the Polytrack.  

Anton Marcus was aboard in both of those races and he is carded to ride her again. However, he did not ride at yesterday’s meeting at the same venue as he was medically indisposed and he has been stood down again for this meeting, so Richard Fourie will now take the ride. 

Simply Complicated is drawn a little wide at No 9 but over this sort of distance it should not be too much of a concern.

There could be good value for punters in Race 3, where Glen Kotzen saddles Legend Has It in a MR 63 Handicap for fillies and mares over 2000m.

She ran a decent race last time and with merit rating dropping further, she looks set up for a second victory. 

Jack Milner’s selections

Race 1: 4 Prince Vihaan, 2 Gimme A Rainbow, 3 Master Dancer, 1 Alma Mater

Race 2: 9 Simply Complicated, 3 Papillion, 6 Hiroshima, 1 Polynieces

Race 3: 4 Legend Has It, 5 Mission Beach, 11 Good Girl, 6 Capriccio

Race 4: 7 Command Control, 1 Sea Sponge, 10 Straight Up, 2 Montana Sky

Race 5: 5 Royal Kitty, 3 Bell Jar, 2 Not Now Pussycat, 4 Laurel Lane

Race 6: 1 Uncomplicated, 5 Duran, 4 Rocket Fire, 2 Charlie-Fox

Race 7: 1 Foxy Lady, 4 Colour Of Light, 10 Matadora’s Parade, 6 Gingerspathtoglory

Race 8: 4 Smart William, 5 Higher Purpose, 6 Brandenburg, 11 Palace Wind

BEST BET

Race 2 No 9 Simply Complicated

VALUE BET

Race 3 No 4 Legend Has it

BEST SWINGER

Race 4 1×7

BIPOT

R162

Leg 1: 2, 3, 4

Leg 2: 9

Leg 3: 4, 5, 11

Leg 4: 1, 7

Leg 5: 2, 3, 5

Leg 6: 1, 4, 5

PLACE ACCUMULATOR

R216

Leg 1: 9

Leg 2: 4, 5, 11

Leg 3: 1, 7

Leg 4: 3, 5

Leg 5: 1, 4, 5

Leg 6: 1, 4, 10

Leg 7: 4, 5

PICK 6

R1200

Leg 1: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11

Leg 2: 1, 7

Leg 3: 2, 3, 4, 5

Leg 4: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6

Leg 5: 1, 4, 10

Leg 6: 4, 5

JACKPOT 1

R120

Leg 1: 1, 7

Leg 2: 2, 3, 4, 5

Leg 3: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6

Leg 4: 1, 4, 10

JACKPOT 2

R120

Leg 1: 2, 3, 4, 5

Leg 2: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6

Leg 3: 1, 4, 10

Leg 4: 4, 5

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