Western Cape raiders to dominate Algoa Cup meeting

Trainers from the Western Cape have once again strongly supported the Listed Algoa Cup itself over 2000m and it should provide a thrilling finish.

All of Candice Bass-Robinson, Justin Snaith, Glen Kotzen and Brett Crawford have runners and a large field has been assembled.

It looks a very open race and bookmakers are sure to lay more than one or two of them.

Hoedspruit is a weak favourite but Snaith does not only rely only on Hoedspruit as he has also the consistent Bayberry ready to run another big race.

Hoedspruit is in good form and is the one to beat.   

Kotzen has three runners and jockey arrangements suggest Crimson King could be the stable’s preferred runner but blinkers seem to have made a difference to Cat Daddy of late and although badly drawn he is versatile enough to hold a winning chance, no matter where he finds himself in the running.

Muzi Yeni takes the ride.

Crimson King has proven to be just short of Group level but did have Hoedspruit 2.75 lengths behind him in June and is 2kg worse off, so there should not be much between those two runners.

Local hopes rest with Marmara Sea who demonstrated he was not just a Polytrack specialist with dominant wins on the turf in his last two races. The step up in distance, though, could be his undoing.

Jack Milner’s selections

Race 1: Don Reposado, Rock Garden, Jet Mirage, Cashing In, Psychedelic Eric

Race 2: 1 Double Check, 3 Grayswood Pink, 6 Silver Slippers, 4 Route Sixty Six

Race 3: 6 Cairon, 2 Sabina’s Prodigy, 3 Saint West, 1 Grazinginthegrass

Race 4: 1 Global Drummer, 2 Foreign Source, 7 Regimental, 9 Mister Vargus

Race 5: 2 Swazi Queen, 1 Colorado Springs, 3 Katie To, 9 Follow The Star

Race 6: 2 Norton Sound, 6 Sun Dazed, 1 Peace In Our World, 3 Captain’s Knot

Race 7: 4 Hoedspruit, 9 Cat Daddy, 2 Marmara Sea, 3 Crimson King

Race 8: 2 Santa Therese, 1 Carioca, 5 Veronica Mars, 7 Encryption

Race 9: 4 Blingking, 9 Knights Templar 2 Arctic Drift, 3 Oscar Wilde

BEST BET

Race 6 No 2 Norton Sound

VALUE BET

Race 3 No 6 Cairon

BEST SWINGER

Race 2 1×3

BIPOT

R144

Leg 1: 1, 3

Leg 2: 2, 3, 6

Leg 3: 1, 2

Leg 4: 1, 2, 3

Leg 5: 2

Leg 6: 2, 3, 4, 9

PLACE ACCUMULATOR

R108

Leg 1: 2, 3, 6

Leg 2: 1

Leg 3: 1, 2, 3

Leg 4: 2

Leg 5: 2, 4, 9

Leg 6: 2

Leg 7: 2, 3, 4, 9

PICK 6

R648

Leg 1: 1, 2, 3

Leg 2: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9

Leg 3: 2

Leg 4: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9

Leg 5: 2

Leg 6: 2, 3, 4, 5, 9

JACKPOT 1

R36

Leg 1: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9

Leg 2: 2

Leg 3: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9

Leg 4: 2

JACKPOT 2

R36

Leg 1: 2

Leg 2: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9

Leg 3: 2

Leg 4: 2, 3, 4, 5, 9