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With her one stablemate Blast playing up and refusing to load, the non black-type 1400m race ended a lot better than it started for Yvette Bremner, who owns and trains winner Pacyano, a horse labelled a ‘greyhound’ by the yard
An eventful and dramatic race – and who can blame Strydom for objecting? If the result had gone against the Bass runner, there is little doubt that Sean Cormack would have stomped the same path to the Stipes boardroom
A true-blue Puller family affair saw the 4yo Reim rocketing out of the gates and running right away from the chasing bunch in a quality field that included star 2yo of last season, Afrikaburn. And what lovely timing for CTS!
Despite the late challenge of Lanner Falcon down the outside, Cheyne kept a cool head and the 12 to 10 favourite Double Whammy won a lot easier than the winning margin might suggest
The Mike Bass PE satellite yard received a much needed boost of firepower that delivered instant results at Fairview on Friday. Arriving from Cape Town under 24 hours prior to the race, the Muhtafal gelding Titus showed his class with a smart win in the R100 000 Fairview 1800.
The 28 year old Chambers is not one of the high-profile glamour boys and the Ellisras Primary School old boy came into race riding through the back door as it were. After studying engineering, he applied to become a special apprentice at the relatively late age of 23.
One swallow doesn’t make a summer. Punters learnt the tough lesson of placing too much emphasis on one blot on the copybook as the smart Sail From Seattle gelding Tommy Gun was left to run wild at 16 to 1 when bolting home to score a terrific victory in the R1 million Gr2 Emerald Cup at the Vaal on Saturday
A big day seldom passes without a Mike De Kock winner and our former champion trainer left it very late at the Vaal on Saturday
The winning jockey when asked about his herculean comeback effort, observed rather modestly afterwards that he ‘simply kept her balanced and didn’t stop riding!”
There is little doubt that Trip Tease rates right at the top of the class on the sand 1000m and there aren’t too many horses we could think of that could go with him. Sure, the year younger Precursor ran the Sophomore 1000 in 0,18 secs faster earlier on but Trip Tease carried 2,5kgs more and was never pressed for an effort by Deon Sampson.
Rumoured to be unbeatable on the day, the Captain Al colt Precursor led all the way to win the R125 000 Sophomore 1000 with ease at the Vaal on Saturday
