Trainer Alan Greeff and stable jockey Richard Fourie have had a quiet time of late. Punters were getting used to three or four winners a meeting but it has dried up this month.
Every trainer goes through quiet times and once in a while it does happen to the Eastern Cape champion trainer.
That should also start to change very soon and they can have a couple of winners on the Fairview Polytrack on Tuesday.
It can start as early as Race 3, a Pinnacle Stakes over 2000m, where Greeff has four of the seven runners.
Best of them is clearly Enchanting Choice, booked to jockey Kendall Minnie at the moment. This five-year-old mare is carded to run on Friday 30 January but do not be surprised if Greeff pulls her out for Friday and runs her in this instead. A change of riders could also come into effect.
The Rafeef mare has been very good in her two starts on the Polytrack, winning once and finished a close-up third to Splicethemainbrace.
The step up to 2000m on Tuesday should play to her strength as she packs a decent finish.
Greeff does have decent back-up in the form of First Wish, the ride of Andrew Fortune, Walkonthewildside (Richard Fourie) and Green Isle (Xolane Ndlovu).
None of Enchanting Choice’s stable companions would be surprise winners.
Filly Hot Sauce represents the Fourie-Greeff combination in Race 7, a MR 86 Handicap for over 1200m.
The well-bred three-year-old filly won on debut and has not been disgraced in her three starts since then.
The daughter of Canford Cliffs returned from a break and found some speedy fillies and mares a bit quicker than her on the day but was reportedly coughing so that run is easily ignored.
She chased home a fast filly in Danish Dynamite in her only run on this surface and that form is good enough to suggest Hot Sauce is worth a bet.
Once again Greeff does have back-up in the form of much-improved Happy Wives.
If nothing has panned out until the last race it might pay to go each-way on Palancar.
Trainer Cliffie Miller has his runners in good shape and Palancar is a course-and-distance winner. He has cracked pole position draw, and his last run is best ignored.
Clive Robinson
