Pistol Pete to claim Lebelo

FORM: PETER'S CHARGE WILL BE HAVING HIS PEAK RUN AND WILL ENJOY DROP TO 1000M

- Jack Milner

While there are only eight races on tomorrow's Turffontein card, there is real quality on offer for bettors with three feature races dominating an interesting card. The Grade 3 Lebelo Sprint over 1000m is a popular end-of-the-year feature and it is a memorable race for the Peter family because when Magico won this race it was one of the first feature winners trained by Paul Peter.

Now son Tony has the reins and he can add a winner of his own to this event as he saddles Pistol Pete who is expected to get back to winning ways. The three-year-old son of Buffalo Bill Cody has had two runs since returning from a three-month break and has finished runner-up in both of them.

Both were against strong opposition and his defeat bore no shame. The first was at the hands of highly rated Mike de Kock-trained three-year-old Greaterix, to whom he was conceding 9kg. Pistol Pete clearly needed the run and to go down just two lengths under those conditions was an excellent performance.