Multiple champion trainer Mike de Kock has confirmed that his star 4yo Hawwaam would definitely not be running in the Gauteng Summer Cup, for which he is the ruling favourite with bookmakers in the ante-post market.
In a report on www.goldcircle.co.za, De Kock said that the champion Silvano colt was being targeted at the L’Ormarin’s Queen’s Plate and the Sun Met.
Hawwaam will thus be on course for the three-way clash of the century in next year’s Sun Met. The country’s three big guns, Do It Again, Rainbow Bridge and Hawwaam are due to do battle in that race.
De Kock plans to run him in two Pinnacle Stakes events in Johannesburg before taking him down to Cape Town.