Searching For Gold fancied

Orville Clarke, Gleaner Writer

There is a Pick-9 carryover of $2 million on tomorrow's 11-race programme at Caymanas Park and a payout in excess of $3m looks a real possibility.

Despite a 37-1 upset by HIGH CUBE in the eighth race, the Super-6 has no carryover. It starts anew with the guaranteed minimum of $750,000.

The Pick-9 embraces races three to 11, the first Super-6 from one to six, the overlapping Super-6 from race six to 11. We look at the second Super-6 which gets under way with a knotty-looking $180,000 claiming race over 1700 metres in which 15 starters have been declared.

Unimpressive form

RIFLEMAN, to be ridden by leading jockey Shane Ellis, has dropped three classes to run among this lot, and despite his unimpressive form, indications are that he is focused for this race and should use his class and win ahead of ZIXX and NAHIMA.

Race number seven for open allowance horses has attracted a small field of six, including the April 2 2000 Guineas winner BIG MAN BOYU, who takes on seasoned campaigners LITTLE WASP, RAISE A RUCKUS and the recent Fontainbleu Trophy winner PRICELESS BEAUTY.

At the weights, it should come down to a straight fight between the bold front-runner LITTLE WASP, who beat all barring MISMYRTLEBOYRICHIE over this trip in fast time on last, and the American colt RAISE A RUCKUS, who went under in a driving finish to PRICELESS BEAUTY in the 1500-metre Fontainbleu Trophy, but enjoys a 5.0kg swing tomorrow. The Philip Feanny-trained RAISE A RUCKUS (Dick Cardenas up), who is unbeaten in two races over the distance, gets the nod over Wayne DaCosta's LITTLE WASP with female jockey Georgina Sergeon again at the helm.

Briefly, RHEA ON TOUR, who was a fast-finishing second to MY HEARTBEAT over the round five course on her recent debut, should win the eighth race, Division I of the Percy Martin Memorial Cup for maiden three-year-olds over the straight, while it should be the DaCosta-trained SEARCHING FOR GOLD as a banker in Division II. SECOND SUPER-6

(6) RIFLEMAN/ZIXX

(7) RAISE A RUCKUS/LITTLE WASP

(8) RHEA ON TOUR(9) SEARCHING FOR GOLD

(10) WILD TRADITION/LEGAL LADY

(11) CENTEYA/LA VIDA LOCA