HORSE RACING
Trainer slams ‘clueless’ panel of handicappers
Undercover Agent, the three-year-old colt who lowered the colours of top filly Snowdance in last Saturday’s grade1 Gold Challenge at Greyville, has been raised a mammoth 14 points to a merit rating of 125. The handicapping panel assessed that Undercover Agent had risen to the occasion to beat the top filly in the land over 1,600m, her best distance. The colt bred at Moutonshoek Stud is now the highest-rated male runner in SA. African Night Sky, the Durban July favourite, was raised only four points for his victory in the grade3 Cup Trial, which left his trainer Justin Snaith relieved and saw owner Fred Crabbia’s runner shorten in the betting. The four extra points mean that African Night Sky will only be penalised by an extra 2kg in the July field, a factor most pundits believe will make him hard to beat in the big race considering his already exposed talent. Rival trainer Mike de Kock, whose July hopeful Yakeen also received four points for a win in the Jubilee Handicap at Turffont...
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