Igugu should win despite rumours

MOST experts are siding with champion filly Igugu to win the R2.5-million Gr1 J&B Met over 2000m at Kenilworth today and it’s not surprising, because she is weighted to let collateral form count and by latest accounts very well within herself, despite the dozens of rumours to the contrary in racing circles this week.

Igugu didn’t make the truck from Johannesburg to Cape Town; she got off the truck suffering from illness at halfway; Mike de Kock wanted to scratch her when she eventually arrived… all malicious nonsense on twitter, facebook and talk forums – one wonders what kind of perverse pleasure some individuals derive from circulating such crap!

Then again, looking at some of the clowns that post their stupid opinions on the social networks and elsewhere, it is clear that a section of the racing population consists of pea-brained imbeciles, some of them so mentally disturbed they are potentially dangerous.

Back to the big race – form guru Robert Bloomberg pointed out this morning the apparent lack of a pacemaker (Mike de Kock may even set the pace with Igugu’s stablemate Il Sanpietro) – Igugu’s excellent mark on the weight scale at the conditions, and assessed that it’s very hard to see the star filly getting her colours lowered.

Gimmethegreenlight, a superb three-year-old winner of a Gr1 WFA race and in receipt of 3kg from the filly – whilst rated 117 on a par with her – must have a chance of beating Igugu, but it won’t be easy. The daughter if Galileo should add to her already hugely impressive list of trophies.