The defection of Marygold from the seventh race at the Vaal on Thursday affords Candice Dawson’s filly Gallic Princess the chance to register the sixth win of her career.   

Marygold would have been bidding to make it four wins in a row, but now it leaves Lucky Houdalakis’s filly Wisteria Walk as Gallic Princess’s chief rival. Bookmakers quote her as the 9-10 favourite. Interestingly, both four-year-old fillies are daughters of Vercingetorix whose progeny have excelled over the past 12 months...

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