Orville Clarke, Freelance Writer

The favourite, MR. PRIDE, is eased down by in-form apprentice Omar Walker to win the seventh race over 2000 metres for maiden three-year-olds, in fine style at Caymanas Park on Wednesday. - Colin Hamilton/Freelance Photographer

Both the Pick-9 and Super-6 offer carryover on tomorrow's 12-race programme at Caymanas Park.

With the Margaret Parchment-trained VALID FARE providing a 24-1 upset in the sixth race, punters were derailed in their efforts to catch both exotic bets. One punter with eight of nine winners received an attractive $146,569.00 consolation prize.

Tomorrow's programme will facilitate two Super-6s, while the Pick-9 will embrace races four to 12.

Keen competition

We look at the second Super-6 which gets under way from the seventh race, the $900,000 graded stakes co-feature for the Reggae Trophy over the straight five course.

Despite having attracted a small field of six, this race promises keen competition among the trio of LA REINA, NASATOL and MUSICAL MAESTRO, all winners last time out. While LA REINA has come on strongly in recent months and is also something of a specialist over the straight, MUSICAL MAESTRO (Trevor Simpson up) represents the class horse of the field and having worked exceptionally well since last raced on July 7, the five-year-old gelding from the stables of Dwight Chen will not go down easily despite 60.5kg.

MUSICAL MAESTRO galloped out of the straight in a brisk 58.1 last Monday morning, the first four in a blistering 45.4.

DIAL DIRECT gets the ideal trip (1000 metres round) in the eighth race and should lead home MISS CODY BANKS and speedy SPLASHING RIVER, while the late-kicking GETAWAYBOY, an unlucky loser over 1200 metres last Saturday, looks hard to oppose in the eighth race over 1600 metres, the ideal trip. ROYAL MAJESTY looks his only danger.

Then, take the very fit MAGDALA ahead of IMPERIALIST and speedy QUEEN TAMARA in the 10th race following her close third to ASKAWOMAN in a round five overnight allowance race on September 15.

The leniently treated ALPHA LUPA gets the nod over vastly improved HOOKEDONJAZZ, FIRST IN THE SAND and the 2005 winner EXPLOSIVE PEAK in the knotty looking $1 million CTL Imported Stakes (11th race) over 1400 metres. And the closing race for native bred three-year-olds should resolve itself into a straight fight between JADORE and PRINCESS CUT. It could go either way.

SECOND SUPER-6 FANCIES

(7) MUSICAL MAESTRO/LA REINA

(8) DIAL DIRECT/MISS CODY BANKS

(9) GETAWAYBOY

(10) MAGDALA/IMPERIALIST/

QUEEN TAMARA

(11) ALPHA LUPA/HOOKEDONJAZZ/

FIRST IN THE SAND

(12) JADORE/PRINCESS CUT