Pentometer should get punters off to a winning start early on at Canterbury on Wednesday.

It was a win, a narrow one, by Proverb in the $100,000, listed Bacardi – World’s No 1 Rum Dulcify Quality at Rosehill on Saturday, but it gave trainer Peter Snowden and jockey Kerrin McEvoy cause for thought about where the Commands gelding might go next.

It was a win, a narrow one, by Proverb in the $100,000, listed Bacardi – World's No 1 Rum Dulcify Quality at Rosehill on Saturday, but it gave trainer Peter Snowden and jockey Kerrin McEvoy cause for thought about where the Commands gelding might go next.