A high-quality field of ten, including the top four finishers in the sensational Gr2 Green Point Stakes, are set to do battle in the R1,5 million Gr1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate on 5 January 2019.
Rainbow Bridge – takes on Legal Eagle (Pic – Chase Liebenberg Photography)
The field is headed by three-times reigning champion Legal Eagle who will be out to equal the feat of the top-class Pocket Power who won the race four times on the trot between 2006 and 2010.
Trainer Eric Sands has made what looks to be a strategic inclusion with a possible pacemaker in the form of the former Alec Laird charge Amazing Strike for his fast ascending 4yo, Rainbow Bridge – possibly in order to avoid a repeat of the Green Point Stakes where Rainbow Bridge was caught slightly flat-footed late in the race off a generally pedestrian pace.
Amazing Strike – will he set the pace? (Pic – JC Photos)
Coincidentally, both of the Sands runners are by Ideal World.
Rainbow Bridge races in the silks of the late Chris Gerber, while Amazing Strike races in the Mauritzfontein silks.
The field:
| 1 | 7 | Legal Eagle | 60 | 123 | T A | A Marcus | Sean Tarry | |
| 2 | 6 | Do It Again | 60 | 120 | A | R Fourie | Justin Snaith | |
| 3 | 5 | Undercover Agent | 60 | 120 | A | C Orffer | Brett Crawford | |
| 4 | 9 | Hat Puntano (ARG) | 60 | 112 | A | D Dillon | Joey Ramsden | |
| 5 | 4 | Rainbow Bridge | 60 | 110 | A | B Fayd’Herbe | Eric Sands | |
| 6 | 2 | Amazing Strike | 60 | 107 | TBA | G Cheyne | Eric Sands | |
| 7 | 1 | Infamous Fox (AUS) | 60 | 103 | A | R Danielson | Candice Dawson | |
| 8 | 10 | Buffalo Bill Cody (IRE) | 59.5 | 108 | A | G Lerena | Mike de Kock | |
| 9 | 8 | Snowdance | 57.5 | 114 | A | *L Hewitson | Justin Snaith | |
| 10 | 3 | Soqrat (AUS) | 55 | 118 | A | R Simons | Mike de Kock | |
| Same Trainer – Not Coupled on Tote | ||||||||
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