- East Cape Oaks
VIRGINIA SWEET has had her merit rating raised from 76 to 97 after she won the Listed East Cape Oaks for three-year-old fillies over 2000m on the turf course at Fairview on Friday 7 April. The Handicappers were of the view that 4th placed HAZY CRAZY NIGHT made for the most suitable line horse, leaving her unchanged on a mark of 88. This makes the winner at least equal to the runner up SILVERLINKS who remains on a rating of 97.
Aside from the winner the only other ratings increase was for 3rd placed MEDLERS TART, who goes up from 77 to 90. MEDLERS TART had run to a mark of 87 when winning the Oaks Plate three weeks earlier, but the specific conditions of that race did not allow for a more than six-pound raise to her rating. So, in fact, MEDLERS TART is only improving 3 pounds on her Oaks Plate effort and was increased accordingly.
The only drop was for DOUBLE DESTINY, who is down slightly from 87 to 86.