The likely highly anticipated reappearance for the second week running of Mike de Kock’s bomb Hawwaam, who accepted to run in a 1400m Pinnacle Stakes at the Vaal on Thursday, won’t happen.
The champion son of Silvano was withdrawn on Monday afternoon for reason of ‘insufficient recovery time’.
A forgettable late scratching from the Vodacom Durban July – that’s the last time we will mention that event – Hawwaam went into the starting stall like a lamb last Thursday at his first run as a 4yo, broke on terms and ran out a very easy winner of a 1200m Pinnacle Stakes.
