SA: Kah and McEvoy a team to beat
By Peter Neall, September 19, 2017 - 11:40 AM

Seven weeks into the new season, Jamie Kah took an early step towards defending her Adelaide jockeys premiership with a double on the Parks track at Morphettville last Saturday. 
Kah was on an overseas holiday for most of August and last Saturday’s wins were only her third and fourth of the season, placing her 11 behind premiership leader Paul Gatt.
Kah opened her account on the Tony McEvoy-trained Silvera ($4.20), who scored first up in the benchmark 70 Hughes Limousines Handicap (1400m).
The win completed a good day for McEvoy, with Caulfield Guineas favourite Royal Symphony winning a listed race earlier at Flemington, and extended a successful partnership between McEvoy and Kah, who’d combined for a Balaklava treble three days earlier.
Kah may be doing more riding for McEvoy in the immediate future as Adelaide stable jockey Damien Thornton is returning to Melbourne.
Joining forces with Chris Bieg, Kah completed her double when she rode Mazurek ($5) to a near all-the-way win in the benchmark 70 Holdfast Insurance handicap (1400m).
Kah finished off a productive weekend in the saddle when she rode Never Without You and Night Breeze to a running double at Mindarie-Halidon on Sunday.
Guineas trial for Guru
Highly rated three-year-old filly Glam Guru won her second successive race on the Parks track when she took out last Saturday’s benchmark 70 UBET Handicap (1300m).
Clare Lindop led all the way on the $2.80 equal favourite to record a decisive 4¼-length win.
Co-trainers Leon Macdonald and Andrew Gluyas are likely to send Glam Guru to Melbourne to contest the Group 2 Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m) on October 1. 
Plenty good
Murray Bridge trainer John Hickmott earned a $10,000 bonus when apprentice Raquel Clark brought $3 favourite Have Plenty from a rearward position to win the benchmark 82 Schweppes Handicap (1950m). 
The TRSA bonus goes to any trainer who can prepare an Adelaide metro winner on each of four successive Saturdays.
Hickmott and Clark again combined successfully the following day when Danouli ($3.90) took out the 1800-metre Mindarie-Halidon Cup.
Sweet week
Ryan Balfour completed one of the bigger weeks of his career when Sweet Embrace led for most of the race to take out the benchmark 64 Medallion Homes Handicap (1250m) at the Parks meeting.
Three days earlier Balfour had scored his biggest win, in the listed $100,000 Balaklava Cup with Balf’s Choice, the horse named after the trainer’s late father, top jockey turned trainer David Balfour.
A winner of his past five starts, Balf’s Choice will have his next start in $100,000 listed Tokyo City Cup (1600m) at Morphettville on September 30.
Frost on the rise
Trainer Will Clarken continued his march up the SA training ranks when Todd Pannell guided Steel Frost ($3) from a rearward position to take out the benchmark 82 James Boag’s Premium Handicap (1400m) at Morphettville Parks.
A winner of two from two since joining the Clarken stable, Steel Frost may head to Mooney Valley for a race on Cox Plate eve (October 27).

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