Honour Prince a cinch in Race 2
MOUTTET MILE Day is renowned for form-turnarounds, all and sundry emerging from the woodworks in their Sunday Best to baffle punters.
Last Saturday was your typical Mouttet Mile card, SKYRIZI reversing 18 lengths on MANOUSHE to make all at odds of 12-1, a performance which ought to lead to the stewards' scrutiny of the four-year-old's October 26 finish, 12th of 16 runners at six furlongs.
DIMETRY P also turning up at 12-1, reversing six and a quarter lengths on COSMIC FORCE, upstaging another form-turning springer, SUPERIO, knocked out too many Reggae 6 tickets to count, resulting in four surviving voucher, each picking up $8.08 million.
Waste no time trying to decipher Saturday's Reggae 6 opener. Instead, press the 'all' button, bearing in mind expected-favourite HEEZALION is ineligible and a very early scratch, creating a headache for even the most astute punter.
Give debutant HONOUR PRINCE the nod at four furlongs straight in the Starter's Trophy. The Bern Identity-Awesome Lucy offspring is a half-brother to AWESOME PRINCE, an in-utero, who showed good speed as a two- and three-year-old.
LEGAL BOMB, refitted with blinkers and figure-eight, could turn the third event on its head. Should LEGAL BOMB implode, ADENOSINE is super-fit whereas AVA JAELYN, AKA STORM and PRINCIPAL TIFFANY are all dangerous on the stands' side.
SHE'S THAT GIRL, caught by TEFLON DON in the mud at six furlongs on Jamaica Cup Day, should make no mistake a half-furlong shorter in the War Zone Sprint.
PRINCESS AKILAH should be rewarded for consistency in the fifth at five and a half furlongs. Similarly, MY SUNSHINE should also be a banker in the Reggae 6 closer. Second run off the claim, MY SUNSHINE returns lower than the $550,000 for which she was grabbed out of the now-infamous third-place run behind TEKAPUNT.