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Met Master – Mike Bass

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Candice Bass-Robinson is yet to win the Met and has two longshots in Majestic Mozart and More Magic representing her on Saturday.

What a fairytale it would be if she could do it and give her Dad Mike Bass a memorable early 75th birthday gift for Sunday.

Bunter Barlow (Glen Hatt) beats Trademark (Gerrit Schlechter) in a Bass exacta to the 2001 J&B Met

Mike, the leading Met trainer of the new millenium, won with Bunter Barlow ridden by Glen Hatt in 2001, and then four times on the trot from 2007 to 2010.

Pocket Power won three of those and his sister River Jetez, again with Hatt up, won in 2010.

And here’s a trivia question to get you scratching your head for a while:

What do Alec Laird, Yogas Govender, Sean Tarry and Geoff Woodruff have in common?

Click here to find the answer in Short Heads

 

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