Tarry to enjoy a perfect sky at Turffontein

Off The Record

Jack Milner

Racing is on Sunday at Turffontein and despite having only a seven-race card there are a number of useful youngsters who will be warming up for some feature events later this season.

Sean Tarry has some decent runners on show although one of his best on the card, The Bachelorette, has been scratched from Race 1 as it is under medication.

However, he should be on the mark with in Race 6 over 1200m, where Perfect Sky makes her eagerly anticipated seasonal reappearance.

The beautifully bred Vercingetorix filly, a R1.7-million yearling purchase, ended a promising juvenile campaign with a determined second to Equus Champion Two-Year-Old Filly Palace Of Arvenia in a Grade 2 over this distance. She improved with a hood fitted last time and retains the headgear in her comeback.

Perfect Sky is unlikely to be fully wound up with bigger targets surely in the programme, but she has enough class to make her presence felt immediately. She won’t need to have improved much during her nine-week absence to make a winning reappearance.

 

Jack Milner’s selections

Race 1: 1 Elegant Edge, 3 Stubborn Love, 2 Artifact, 5 Shiraz Glow

Race 2: 11 Astrophile, 7 Chestnut Verse, 2 Two Tigers, 3 Autograph

Race 3: 3 Up And Up, 2 Purple Rain, 1 Life And Letters, 4 Royal Rant

Race 4: 4 Frangipani, 3 Merryweather, 6 Surprise Party, 1 Tomrys

Race 5: 2 Nicci’s Law, 5 Be My Fate, 9 Xtatic, 1 Chariklo

Race 6: 5 Perfect Sky, 4 Trip Of Faith, 8 Blushing Bloom, 6 Doesyourmotherknow

Race 7: 6 Navigatrix, 7 Social Graces, 1 Matcha Mint, 5 Grande Hawaii

 

BEST BET

Race 3: 3 Up And Up

VALUE BET

Race 5: 2 Nicci’s Law

BEST SWINGER

Race 6 4×5

 

BIPOT

R162

Leg 1: 1, 2, 3

Leg 2: 2, 7, 11

Leg 3: 3

Leg 4: 3, 4, 5

Leg 5: 2, 5, 9

Leg 6: 4, 5

 

PLACE ACCUMULATOR

R216

Leg 1: 1,  3

Leg 2: 2, 7, 11

Leg 3: 3

Leg 4: 3, 4, 5

Leg 5: 2, 5, 9

Leg 6: 4, 5

Leg 7: 6, 7

 

PICK 6

R1440

Leg 1: 2, 3, 7, 11

Leg 2: 1, 2, 3

Leg 3: 3, 4, 5, 6

Leg 4: 1, 2, 3, 5, 9

Leg 5: 4, 5

Leg 6: 1, 6, 7

 

JACKPOT 1

R120

Leg 1: 1, 2, 3

Leg 2: 3, 4, 5, 6

Leg 3: 1, 2, 3, 5, 9

Leg 4: 4, 5

 

JACKPOT 2

R120

Leg 1: 3, 4, 5, 6

Leg 2: 1, 2, 3, 5, 9

Leg 3: 4, 5

Leg 4: 1, 6, 7