Racing tip: Two good early bets stand out in the Cape

Trainers are highly unlikely to take a maiden to the Cape for the summer unless they believe their charge will pick up a win or two.


Bettors are faced with a testing card at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth tomorrow but there is an opportunity to pick up a couple of winners in the first two races on the card.

Trainers are highly unlikely to take a maiden to the Cape for the summer unless they believe their charge will pick up a win or two, and that looks to be the case with Mike and Adam Azzie-trained Amber Rock who lines up in Race 1, a Maiden Plate over 1000m.

This Gimmethegreenlight filly has had one race in the Western Cape where she finished a 1.75-length fourth over this course and distance.

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Things did not work out for her that day but with the run under her belt she looks hard to oppose, especially with Richard Fourie up.

Then in Race 2, a Progress Plate over 1400m, Justin Snaith and Grant van Niekerk can strike with Itsrainingwilliam who looks to be in good form.

He was a fast-finishing third to Silver Operator in a hotly contested event last time out and a repeat of that performance should see this son of William Longsword visit the revamped winner’s enclosure for the first time since his Grade 3 Legal Eagle Stakes success back in May.

Both runners were bred by Drakenstein Stud and will run in their familiar blue and white colours.

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