Both 2014 winner Legislate and Saturday’s Gr1 Woolavington winner Oh Susanna will not take part in the 2018 Vodacom July.
Legislate – fitness concerns
This is according to a Snaith Racing release published on Sunday.
Legislate will run in the Gr2 Post Merchants on 15 June at Greyville with Bernard Fayd’herbe up. After a two year absence, he is not yet fit enough to go the Durban July trip.
Oh Susanna has already won three Gr1 races this season and has earned a well-deserved rest before she has another crack the Gr1 Cartier Paddock Stakes and Gr1 Sun Met in 2019.
Had the July been a pure Weight-for-Age event then she may have taken part. As a 3 year old filly she has to give weight all around to hard-knocking older males (despite being capped at 56 kilos and receiving a 6 point buffer) which is a near impossible task for a young three-year-old filly.
Made To Conquer, who won the Gr3 Lonsdale impressively on Saturday, to make it six wins from his last seven starts, will now be supplemented into the Vodacom July on Monday morning.
He gets better with every run and must have a huge shout with 54kg’s on his back. On July day he will be attempting to make it seven wins from eight starts!
