Owner Michael Javett, a stalwart of racing for five decades, has enjoyed plenty of success over the years. In the late 1970s he was co-owner of the mighty Politician and more recently the talented filly Alboran Sea. Javett and Mary Slack raced Alboran Sea, and this partnership could be to the fore again at the Vaal on Tuesday when Aussie-bred Albacore takes on 10 rivals in the sixth race over 2,000m. A four-year-old son of Fastnet Rock, trained by Mike de Kock, Albacore went into the notebooks of many pundits with a pleasing third-place debut at the Vaal in March. The colt built on that effort three weeks later when winning a maiden race at Turffontein by four lengths. Despite taking on some useful sorts in My Favourite Brown, The Rising Legend and Top Shot, there is a suspicion that the handicapper may have let in Albacore lightly with a merit-rating of 70. My Favourite Brown was also bred in Australia and has won three of his past four starts and, with Gavin Lerena sidelined throu...
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