Kamchatka ready to erupt

HERE is nothing anti-climatic about the card at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth today.

- ALSITAIR COHEN

Trainer Andre Nel runs KAMCHATKA in Race 8 - the THE CLAPHAM STAKES at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth today.

(Race Coast/Chase Liebenberg)

Often the calm after the storm with so many big names going around just a few days earlier, there is nothing shallow about the 10-race programme.The card is headed by the Non Black-Type Clapham Stakes over 1600m which is race 8. Kamchatka plummets in class after tasting high-race stakes in her last two efforts.

Despite top weight of 60kg, she could take victory under Serino Moodley who is in town for Andre Nel.

Kamchatka ran against World Sports Betting Cape Town Met participant Legal Counsel in her penultimate start when she finished 1,5 lengths behind over this course and distance in November. She followed up with an admirable 4,55 lengths behind in the One Voucher Victress Stakes over 1800m off level weights.

The form of that race has not been well franked but just ahead of Kamchatka was Rainbow Lorikeet who is among the best of the fairer sex around.

Interestingly, she is the only runner in the race older than three-years-old. Although the three-year-old filly form has taken the spotlight over the last two months, they seem to be far off the levels brought by Wish List and Gimme What I Want.

Beach Verse is improving with every start and she could be worth considering. Despite racing against weak opposition, she has not done much wrong and not been out of the top four. She is brilliantly bred by Vercingetorix out of the star mare Beach Beauty.