No cutting corners with Circumbendibus

WITH race meetings coming thick and fast over the holiday season, local trainers are running out of suitable horses as punters face a seven-race card on the poly today.

- ANDREW HARRISON

However, it is a card that punters will need to do their homework. The programme is headed by a B Stakes over 1200m where Glen Kotzen's runner Circumbendibus tries for a winning hat-trick. He has won comfortably at his last two but has gone up 12 points in the handicap for those wins.

However, both were impressive and he can go in again. A likely danger is Mvelelo who is hunting his fourth straight win. He got a five-point shunt up the handicap for his last effort which could be enough to halt his winning streak.

Visiting Wild At War is the first KZN runner for the sister combination of Candice and Tammy Dawson and is their only runner on the day. The gelding has been making steady recent improvement and has come down in the ratings to what could be a more competitive mark. Buttercup Baby is a smart filly with a handy weight who goes well this course and distance. The form of her last win has been franked and one can expect another forward showing.

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