Lots of love in the Cape

It could be worth following Greg Ennion-trained Love Is A Rose with Richard Fourie in the irons in Race 6 at Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Saturday, the Stayers Stakes for fillies and mares over 1800m.

Despite placing just once in five starts at the country course, Love Is A Rose has run some very respectable races in defeat recently. She has run in stronger races than the one she lines up in on the eight-race and each of her last three starts - which have yielded a third as well as two fifth place finishes in consecutive Listed races - has come against male opposition.

Interestingly, this daughter of Master Of My Fate has been docked a point in her rating in spite of these commendable performances.

Ennion's charge is, under the race conditions, the best-weighted runner and she ought to prove an entirely different proposition competing against her own sex this time around with Fourie back aboard the filly for the first time in four starts.

The country's log-leading rider has won two of three outings, including the Grade 3 Final Fling Stakes, on the Ennion-trained Love Is A Rose.

Callmegetrix and Rainbow Lorikeet are highly regarded by the stable and both well-bred three-year-olds are thought to have Grade 1 Cape Fillies Guineas aspirations, so they will need to acquit themselves competitively in Race 8 if they are to fulfill those ambitions.

The latter edged a recent meeting over 1400m but it could pay to follow the progress of the former who was dropped out from a very wide draw before running on stoutly from a hopeless position to be beaten just a nose by her stablemate last time.

Both should, on pedigree, have more to offer over the extra 200m but Callmegetrix is drawn inside of Rainbow Lorikeet this time around which gives Gareth Wright's mount the edge.

Jack Milner’s selections

Race 1: 5 Plaza Accord, 4 Gravity, 9 King Of Spin, 1 Twentytwentyvision

Race 2: 8 Speed Racer, 3 Guarding The Wall, 1 Lindbergh, 2 Noon Day Gun

Race 3: 9 Qhawekazi, 6 Fastnet Filly, 7 Ellorix, 10 A Thousand Kisses

Race 4: 3 Gimmethatpearl, 2 Miss Greenlight, 7 Montelena, 1 Unconquerable Lady

Race 5: 2 Rockpool, 3 Sugar Mountain, 7 Ponte Pietra, 9 Baratheon

Race 6: 10 Love Is A Rose, 9 My Flower Fate, 1 Silverlinks, 5 Gold Poker Game

Race 7: 1 Pomodoro's Jet, 4 Future Turn, 5 Carriacou, 2 Rosh Kedesh

Race 8: 5 Callmegetrix, 7 Rainbow Lorikeet, 8 Metar, 12 Enchanting Choice

BEST BET

Race 3 No 9 Qhawekazi

VALUE BET

Race 8 No 5 Callmegetrix

BEST SWINGER

Race 1 4x5

BIPOT

R108

Leg 1: 4, 5

Leg 2: 1, 3, 8

Leg 3: 9

Leg 4: 2, 3

Leg 5: 2, 3, 7

Leg 6: 1, 9, 10

PLACE ACCUMULATOR

R243

Leg 1: 1, 3, 8

Leg 2: 9

Leg 3: 2

Leg 4: 2, 3, 7

Leg 5: 1, 9, 10

Leg 6: 1, 4, 5

Leg 7: 5, 7, 8

PICK 6

R960

Leg 1: 9

Leg 2: 2, 3

Leg 3: 2, 3, 7, 9

Leg 4: 1, 5, 9, 10

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

Leg 6: 2, 5, 7, 8, 12

JACKPOT 1

R192

Leg 1: 2, 3

Leg 2: 2, 3, 7, 9

Leg 3: 1, 5, 9, 10

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

JACKPOT 2

R480

Leg 1: 2, 3, 7, 9

Leg 2: 1, 5, 9, 10

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

Leg 4: 2, 5, 7, 8, 12