Kenilworth Wednesday

Have a look at Love Supreme (7/2) in the 4th. Five runs back, this horse was a MR 90 and is now a MR 82. A look at the betting and riding arrangements and I believe Love Supreme is the one to be with.

LS carried level weights with Dynamic Diana (16/10) in the run to Rose in Bloom where Dynamic Diana finished some 6.05 lengths ahead. LS was found to be mildly distressed and from an extremely wide draw. Wednesday there is a 7.0kg swing in favour of LS.

Last time out LS received a kg from Libra for a 1.25 length beating. Wednesday LS receives an extra 1.5kg pull at the weights, so technically should finish ahead of Libra. Must say, if Libra had a winning chance, I think Fourie would have stuck with her, he is stable jockey after all.

Three runs back LS carried 57.0kgs, 0.5kg less than Santa Clara and ran a gallant second some 2.25 lengths off. LS was outrun late over 1600m that day, so over the 1400m on Wednesday, if adopting the same front running tactics, she may prove difficult to peg back. Must say, the current odds looks huge.

Played the double with Kalahari Ninja in the 8th.

So don't spend madly today and tomorrow, keep some for Wednesday, and don't say you didn't get the memo:lol:.

with Zanadu racing tomorrow can we please get a comment

I have Zanadu running in the 15:30 over 2000m at Kenilworth tomorrow :

What can I tell you?
I'll tell you everything that I know - which is nothing.

I went to see her about 2+ weeks ago and she was very happy to see me & the carrots that I took to feed her. It was my first visit for a number of weeks.

My trainer told me that he would be entering her on the 24th of April at Kenilworth over either the 1800 m or 2000m distances.

Since then there has been no further communication although I note that she has been accepted for the 2000m race. Perhaps tomorrow I will hear something? Perhaps never?

Here are the issues which I cannot answer :

1.) Having successfully navigated the PE Gold Cup over 3600m last June (beaten just under 3 lengths) I am now advised that she should be restricted to distances not longer than 2400m. So perhaps she does not stay?
2.) Our usual jockey has gone missing. Don't know why. Don't know where.
3.) I don't know what the longer term objective is any longer (assuming there is even one!) as nothing has been broached or discussed with me (I own 80% of the horse).
4.) Don't know whether she is ready or just having an outing. (at 5!!!).

Sorry, guys, but it seems my only purpose in this exercise is to punctually pay the account each month. Which I do.

Bud, you should be used to this as an owner by now. You are only there to fund the whole "joke" and thereafter the last to know anything. The only time this will change is when you don't own a horse anymore. Garrick you must understand, everyone in this industry is doing you a HUGE favour, spending your money on a dream/pie in the sky.

Posts like these make me wonder whether trainers realise how responsible they are in keeping owners happy, and thus generate future business?. I can not believe that someone who spends a fortune to acquire an animal for you to train, then pays an exorbitant amount feeding it every month, is treated with the disrespect shown here.

In all my years involved in this industry (directly/indirectly +- 45 years) as an owner/son of an owner nothing has changed. Great horsemen and woman out there, fantastic people with a lot of knowledge, but very few have a clue how to communicate with an owner. I have been involved with very close to 25% of all trainers in SA and I have only met one that communicates "properly" with an owner. For most you get a feeling of being a "necessary irritation" to them
I have introduced so many of my mates over the years to owning a horse, to date, not one is still an owner and would never own a horse again. Why ? An expensive unpleasant experience for most. Sad but true.

Rikers Island and Silver League some value horses to follow tomorrow. 33-1 and 10-1. Maybe a little place dbl

Thanks Bayern taking your double and adding princkea in the 7th and path of choice on the 1st for a Canadian,thanks Bayern needed two more for a chance

Hoping the ine in the 7th principessa can use the weight turnaround for the won.

2000m down his alley
GO R KATJI GO

Path of choice
Contessa's Glance
Rikers Island each way
Midnight Moonlight
Over The Way
Big Fish each way
Summer Moon
Johnny Black
Moon Rock each way

Race 1
Vaughan Marshall
No 4 Lasata - Ignore last run. Has a chance here
No 5 Path Of Choice - Will prefer the extra but may still need further

Race 2
Justin Snaith
No 1 Contessa's Glance - Doing well, each way chance
Glen Kotzen
No 3 Apache Squaw - Might need the run, better suited over further
Glen Puller
No 4 If I Could Fly - Will need the run
Paul Reeves
No 5 Billi Ann - Is looking for further but should run a better race
than on debut

Race 3
Brett Crawford
No 6 Golden Tippy - May need the run
No 7 Khopesh - May need the run
No 2 Fergie's Rock - Has his first run back since gelding and he
should need this run
Vaughan Marshall
No 5 Rikers Island - Needs to do more

Race 4
Brett Crawford
No 5 Love Supreme - Doing well at home, place chance

Race 5
Vaughan Marshall
No 13 Sierra Line - Drawn wide, small place chance
Paddy Kruyer
No 4 Over The Way - She's very well but has it all to do from a bad draw
Mike Robinson
No 8 Lunar Tunes - She's very well and i expect a good run if she can
overcome her bad draw
Brett Crawford
No 5 Fee Fi Foe Fum - Doing well at home and i'm expecting a better run from her
No 15 Freedom Flashing - Needs to improve on current form
No 11 I Love Mambo - Had a good last run. I expect further improvement
and she should be included in quartets

Race 6
Vaughan Marshall
No 3 Lloyd George - Showed promise in Port Elizabeth. Needs to
reproduce that form to shape here.
Brett Crawford
No 8 Middlewood - Has good form and he should be competitive
No 4 Veeforvictory - He's working well and should be included in all bets

Race 7
Vaughan Marshall
No 9 Flash Fire - Most disappointing last run. Hoping to see an improvement
Mike Robinson
No 2 Secret Depths - She's well drawn and has consistent form. I
expect a big run from her.
No 3 Transylvania - Is a nice filly. I'm expecting a good run but she
does have more to do here.
Brett Crawford
No 7 Big Suze - Doing well and has an each way chance
No 6 Depeche - Has a place chance
No 4 Principessa - Is in good form and i expect a competitive run from her.

Race 8
Paddy Kruyer
No 7 Mega Secret - He's a hard knocker and has a chance in this company.

Race 9
Piet Steyn
No 4 Prince Oracy - Might need the run
Paul Reeves
No 13 Dayonaut - Back over his favorite distance,place chance
No 10 Moon Rock - Course and distance suited, place chance
Brett Crawford
No 11 Para Handy - Is better suited to the Kenilworth straight and he
should run a better race

JE NE SAIS QUOI and SECRET DEPTHS are overdue for wins today.

I have taken the double at a nice price!