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Published:Friday | August 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM
POSSE TRAIN (Dane Nelson) is guided to the winners' enclosure after winning the seventh race over 1200 metres on Independence Day, August 6. Owned and trained by Harry Parsard, the three year-old grey gelding clocked 1:13.4. - Colin Hamilton/Freelance Photographer

Orville Clarke, Gleaner Writer

With DI-LAW and RIVER STYX scoring notable upsets at Cay-manas Park last Saturday, the Pick-9 had no takers and the carryover to tomorrow's 10-race programme stands at $1 million.

Meanwhile, two new exotic bets, the Pick-4 and the Hit-Six, will come on stream tomorrow, while the implementation of the overlapping Super-6 has been delayed once again.

The Pick-4 challenges the pubic to select the winners of four consecutive races, while the Hit-Six requires punters to correctly forecast the first six past the post.

The Pick-9 will embrace races two to 10, the Super-6 from five to 10. We look at the Super-6 which commences with a 3-y-o and up claiming race ($550,000-$500,000) over 1400 metres to be contested by eight starters, including the down-in-class THE GREYT DOCTOR.

Despite the presence of hat-trick seeker TOBAGO, winner of the Emancipation Day Trophy on August 2, and LIKKLE BIT, who was third in that race, the Philip Feanny-trained THE GREYT DOCTOR looks best equipped to pull it off with only 51.0kg and Paul 'Country' Francis aboard. The five-year-old grey gelding notched his last win over 1500 metres at the expense of PRIME MINISTER and GO MY ROBIN in overnight company on April 24, and although beaten in two subsequent races, both in open allowance company, should make no mistake at this level.

Rhoel Rhoden memorial cup

The lightly raced TRADITIONAL PRINCE, having finished second to the impressive American horse MISMYRTLEBOYRICHIE in a fast-run 800-metre race on July 14, should go one better at the expense of PRINCE TAFHARI in the sixth race over 1100 metres for the Rhoel Rhoden Memorial Cup confined to two-year-olds.

SPACESAVER, who has beaten better in the not-too-distant past, gets the nod over MR. BUTCHER and SIMPLY DEVINE in the seventh race over 1400 metres for $180,000 conditional claimers, while it should be the Desmond Shand-trained MY LADY (knocking at the door) over YES WE WILL and SALUTE TO MOM in the eighth race over 1500 metres for maiden three-year-olds.

The ninth race over 1820 metres for the Nigel B. Nunes Memorial Cup (open allowance) promises to be the race of the day, with the 2009 Superstakes winner HOMBRE, the 2008 Superstakes winner AD INFINITUM, 2007 Derby winner THE BOMBER, the recent Prime Minister's Stakes hero SHANGHAI PASS and HEART OF GOLD the standouts in a field of nine.

HOMBRE will definitely have to be caught and either HEART OF GOLD or AD INFINITUM (both working well) can do it. Strictly at the weights, Wayne DaCosta's HEART OF GOLD, who loves the distance, gets the nod with champion jockey Omar Walker aboard.

Then, take the recent fast-time winner DUSTY MILLY to lead home the well-prepared LOVE OVER GOLD and FLYING MARGARET in the closing 3-y-o sprint.

SUPER-6 FANCIES

(5) THE GREYT DOCTOR/LIKKLE BIT

(6) TRAD PRINCE/PRINCE TAFHARI

(7) SPACESAVER/MR BUTCHER

(8) MY LADY

(9) HEART OF GOLD/HOMBRE

(10) DUSTY MILLY/LOVE OVER GOLD