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Just shout Go Man Go at a tricky card
If we’re lucky, this will be a two-horse affair, with Go Man Go and Coin Spinner fighting it out.
The Premier’s Champions Challenge was a train-smash for punters, but, by default, it set tongues wagging about the forthcoming Durban July. Picture: Getty Images
The race card for Wednesday’s Scottsville race meeting is not one for embracing – unless you’re a masochist. It’s a Gordian knot, tangled and crepuscular; full of imponderables and inscrutability; fulinginous and annoying. A can of worms.
So, an irresistible challenge to devoted punters then! After all, a tough card usually means big pay outs. Crack the blighter, you’re rolling in it, baby.
The holy grail is finding a race or races in which you can narrow the choice down to just a couple of likely candidates.
On Wednesday, this might be the seventh, a 1200m MR 84 Handicap and the highest-rated race of the day.
If we’re lucky, this will be a two-horse affair, with Go Man Go and Coin Spinner fighting it out.
The former, trained by Andre Nel, enjoys this quirky racecourse and is a consistent galloper. He once beat the well-regarded Captain Tatters over this course and distance.
Go Man Go is returning from a 94-day break but runs well fresh and has in-form apprentice jockey Rachel Venniker to urge him along.
Coin Spinner, from Tony Rivalland’s stable, goes for a hat-trick following two victories on the Greyville turf. If he adapts to Scottsville, he’ll surely be in the mix at the top of the hill.
One other horse that looks a bit of a standout is Sting Ray in the last.
Otherwise, it’s blindfold-and-dart time.
SELECTIONS
1: 3 Specially Selected, 5 Passage Of Power, 1 The Brief, 4 Allaroundtheworld
2: 9 Winter Melody, 5 Sparkling Flame, 15 Tempelhoff, 1 Sexy Shiraz
3: 4 Runaway Song, 8 Metallic Gold, 2 Mighty Mashona, 3 Quiz Master
4: 8 Conchita, 9 Hot Strike, 10 Shape Of You, 6 And We Danced
5: 10 Papa C, 1 Naval Secret, 11 Kapen Pride, 5 Master Of Destiny
6: 8 Chewbacca, 5 King’s Cove, 3 Lucretius, 13 A Whole New World
7: 4 Go Man Go, 8 Coin Spinner, 6 Tonightsfightnight, 9 Lord Wylie
8: 13 Sting Ray, 6 Diamond Girl, 9 Mvulazana, 11 Kitten’s Adventure
Pick 6: 2,4,8 x 1,6,8,9,10,12 x 1,2,5,10,11 x 3,5,8,13 x 4,8 x 6,9,13 (R2140)
PA: 5,9 x 4,8 x 8,9 x 1,10,11 x 5,8 x 4 x 13 (R48)
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