Picture: Kingdundee looks a certainty at first glance, but his stablemate Cruise Control is a danger! (Pauline Herman).
There is a TAB Tote Pick 6 carryover of R500,000 to the race meeting at Fairview on Friday and punters have three possible bankers to consider: Kingdundee (Race 4), Sports Fan (Race 5) and My Best Shot in Race 7, the Listed Betway Algoa Cup over 2000m.
If you’re going to go for all three of them, with three fields in the other legs, your Pick 6 perm for the day will cost you R1584, or a percentage thereof, but on closer inspection of the form, it probably won’t be that easy.
Computaform notes in their Pick 6 preview that Kingdundee is on the up, races well fresh and looks the best of Dean Smith’s pair on the face of the jockey bookings. But Smith noted in an interview that he is unable to split Kingdundee from his top-class stablemate, Cruise Control, who lost his form before a rest but is obviously showing some of his old sparkle in work.
Allan Greeff’s Sports Fan looks the most progressive in Race 4, but she likely to encounter some opposition from Danish Dynamite and perhaps even the older sprinters King’s Again and Priscilla Maisley, while Alesia’s Love is better over further, but she ran close to star filly Direct Hit last time and cannot be discarded.
My Best Shot has a lot going for him in the Algoa Cup, but the very capable front-runner, Holding Thumbs, is likely to dictate the pace. You don’t want to be without his number if he has his head in front going into the last 150m.
Desert Storm, Lotus Silk and Heavenly Mafia should suffice for the first leg of the Pick 6, which starts in Race 3 over 1400m, but Races 6 and 8 are trappy and you’ll need adequate cover.
Below, a small suggested Pick 6 permutation, and two Jackpot perms to cover your Pick 6 investment:
Pick 6: R126: (Starts in Race 3)
Leg 1: 1, 8, 10
Leg 2: 1, 2
Leg 3: 6
Leg 4: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12
Leg 5: 1
Leg 6: 8, 9, 10
Jackpot 1 R252 (Starts in Race 4)
Leg 1: 1, 2, 3
Leg 2: FIELD (1-7)
Leg 3: FIELD (1-12)
Leg 4: 1
Jackpot 2 R288 (Starts in Race 5)
Leg 1: 6
Leg 2: FIELD (1-12)
Leg 3: 1, 3
Leg 4: FIELD (1-12)
