Sean Tarry’s World Pool Gold Cup favourite Future Pearl comes in with a capped merit rating, so is ahead of the handicappers and is thus a worthy favourite (Picture: Candiese Lenferna).
Sean Tarry can cap a remarkable season by landing the third World Pool Gold Cup of his career, twelve years after he won his first with Aslan in 2011.
His big three-year-old stayer Future Pearl has the weights in his favour and it is hard to think of a detracting factor to his chances.
He has the top class Richard Fourie up.
Fourie will be out to break a long drought in this race, his only victory in it coming when giving the Stephen Page-trained Mokaro a brilliant ride way back in 2009.
However, Fourie is one of just four jockeys in the race who have won the Gold Cup, the others being S’Manga Khumalo (Enaad in 2016 and Paths Of Victory in 2020), Gavin Lerena (Aslan in 2011) and Lyle Hewitson (Nebraas in 2021).
Future Pearl is a worthy favourite for the Gr 3 3200m event, especially considering he comes in off a merit rating which can be said to be heavily capped.