Run For It. Photo: Equine Edge/Gold Circle
The Justin Snaith yard are confident that Run For It will get into the final field for the Vodacom Durban July and have therefore elected to bypass the Grade 3 Cup Trial at Clairwood on Saturday and run him in a forthcoming Allowance Plate over 1 600m.
Jonathan Snaith said, “He currently carries 56,5 kg, but if he wins the Cup Trial he will incur a two to four point penalty.”
Run For It was 26th on the last Vodacom Durban July log, which is due to be released on Tuesday.
However, the Snaith’s have analysed the log and felt there would be a number of changes.
Jonathan also reckoned that considering Run For It’s Grade 1 record he should get in.
Looking at the horses above Run For It on the log, Beach Beauty has been taken out of the July already, Jackson is doubtful and there will be question marks about some of the unplaced horses in Saturday’s Grade 1 Daily News, that include Love Struck, Tellina and Wild One.
Furthermore, Cherry On The Top’s disappointing fourth place in the Grade 1 Woolavington 2000 on Saturday, in which she started at odds of 11-20, has cast a shadow over her Champions Season.
Thunder Dance was also in the top twenty and her target rests between the July and the Grade 1 Jonsson Workwear Garden Province Stakes on the same day.
How she fares in Sunday’s Grade 3 Jubilee Handicap over 1 800m at Turffontein on Saturday will likely be the deciding factor.
However, there is the danger that the winners of races like the Cup Trial and Jubilee this weekend could leap frog Run For It on the log, while the runner up in the Daily News, No Worries, has been supplemented for the July and will surely make the final field.
Furthermore, Saturday’s Grade 1 Woolavington winner Do You Remember will also be given a place in the final field.
It appears to be a risky move by the Snaith yard.
