THREE BALLOONS (14), the four year old son of JUDPOT, had lost his way quite badly in racing, especially in KZN during this Winter Season. He started his last race, the 2400m Derby at Scottsville at 66/1. The way he finished that race, in second, was definitely not like that of a horse starting at that price. He can win this race if he runs as he did over the shorter distance last time. Mike Bass trains and Grant Van Niekerk rides. The extra distance of 3000m should be right up his street.

We all know just how well Dean Kannemeyer has been doing along the East Coast since he set up his satellite yard at the beginning of the season. He has two horses in this race that have winning chances. BALANCE SHEET (4) and SOLAR STAR (7) both have winning chances. Which one is the right one? One has to fancy BALANCE SHEET with Anthony Delpech aboard as he would have had first call. However, there is very little wrong with the form of SOLAR STAR. Remember jockey Stuart Randolph won the July last year aboard the Dean Kannemeyer trained POWER KING. The form of SOLAR STAR is more consistent than that of BALANCE SHEET. I am going to side and lean more in favour of SOLAR STAR.

KING OF PAIN (1) has been lightly raced since the Cape Town Summer Season. Perhaps he has the Gold Cup more in his sights. The Joey Ramsden trained son of GREYS INN may not have the best of Greyville form but his jockey most has! He is well weighted to win this race.

On feature race days it will be foolish to leave out any Mike De Kock runners. ENAAD (12) had been running in lower division races up until last time when he bumped a far stronger field and made a good race of it when going down to ARCH RIVAL in a pinnacle stakes over 2450m at Turffontein. S'Manga Khumalo has the ride.