With less than two months of the season left there are not too many winners separating trainers Gavin Smith and Alan Greeff in their quest for the East Cape Champion Trainer title and it is likely to go down to the final meeting of the season.
Both trainers have many runners with winning chances at Fairview on Friday and we have singled out four runners who may be worth a bet, providing the rain stays away and we can get a turf meeting.
Aadehya in Race 2 has a big chance for the Smith yard. The Vercingetorix colt made his debut in the Listed East Cape Nursery and although a well-beaten third and a long way behind the winner, it was a decent run.
He finished just behind a winner and had a couple of previous winners behind him that day.
It was over Fairview 1200m on the turf.
Admittedly more was expected when a beaten favourite on the Polytrack a couple of weeks later over 1000m. That was clearly too short for Aadehya and back over the course and distance of his debut he is likely to bounce back to score.
A couple of races later, Race 5, trainer Greeff has a few runners in this low-grade handicap but juvenile Three Rocks can do him proud.
The Heavenly Blue filly could be better than her current merit rating and gets a perfect opportunity to prove that.
Three Rocks bumped a decent field on debut and only found Paris Love a bit better on the day.
It was a good debut and she was quick to break out the maiden ranks which she did in style, slamming Savic by 4.50 lengths.
That rival has recently gone on to win and frank the form.
Blonde Act in Race 6 has done Greeff proud so far and could add another win to his tally.
Four wins in just seven outings since moving to Greeff with two runner-up spots shows what a good job he has done with this gelding.
Blonde Act bumps a decent although small field but he should be course-and-distance suited and can run down likely favourite Chery Ano late in the race.
Smith has sent out a few juveniles to take on their elders in handicaps recently without success but that can change in the last race.
Waz Wouter is getting better and blinkers certainly did the job last time. He has scope for further improvement.
Waz Wouter had a lot in hand when beating Move On Over last time out and that runner went on to win last week.
Clive Robinson
