Our Time Is Money team unlock a few interesting angles on the weekend’s racing, including what appears to be a false course record in a Hollywoodbets Durbanville 1500m Maiden.
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Tirpitz – found form in good time under Siyanda Sosibo (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
Hollywoodbets Scottsville 9 March
Track Condition: Going – Good to Soft (both tracks)
Penetrometer: 25 Stand side – 25 Inside
Rain: Last 24hrs Nil – Last 7 days 17mm
Irrigation: Last 7 days Nil
False Rail: 3m
Wind: 10-15km/h North Easterly tail wind
Corse Variant: 0,51s fast straight – 0,37s fast bend
Thandi Bhengu (35 Years) A Stakes 1750m
Just eight runners went to post for the afternoon’s top liner and here we saw a smart performance from the second favourite MISS PLATINA.
The pace was a decent one and with the two front runners both taking the back door early in the straight the field quickly began to concertina. Indeed, going through the 300m barely two lengths covered all.
Tienie Prinsloo’s charge had raced 6,5 lengths off the pace at the back but quickly made headway coming off the bend. She struck the front approaching the 200m pole and won, going away by two and a quarter.
N Ndlovu/MSchultz (30 Years) B Stakes 1200m
Not surprisingly the faster of the two 1200m events, this race was run at a fair pace. The winner CONVOCATION broke well and was always positioned close to the speed.
She put her head in front going through the 300m and won well from the running on Soho Star. The runner up was gaining at the finish and recorded the fastest 400m-finish time in this race.
The Flying The Flag mare Convocation has now won 6 of her 19 starts.
Alan Gray (35 Years) Class 4 – 1400m
Three of the afternoon’s nine races were run over 1400m and in comfortably the fastest of these the friendless TIRPITZ registered his fourth career victory.
Freely available at 33/1 on the off, the Silvano gelding was squeezed out shortly after the start and with the pace being a good one he soon found himself nine lengths off them.
Once in the straight though he ran on strongly under a determined ride from Siyanda Sosiba and after striking the front 100m from home won going away.
Quickies
Third in the faster of the two 1000m events, the Hollywoodbets Bright Future C Stakes, TERIYAKI ran on from the back and recorded the fastest 400m-finish time of the afternoon.
Fastest Times:
- 1000m (2) Future Flo 57,21
- 1200m (2) Convocation 68,73
- 1400m (3) Tirpitz 83,77
- 400-finish Teriyaki 22,46
Hollywoodbets Durbanville 8 March
Track Condition: Going – Good
Penetrometer: 21
Rain: Last 7 days Nil
Irrigation: Last 24hrs 10mm – Last 7 Days 60mm
False Rail: 1m out back straight with a 2m spur at 550m mark
Wind: 14-16km/h Southerly head wind
Course Variant: 1,47s fast
Book Now Royal Raceday 16 March Class 3 1250m
Four of the afternoon’s nine races were staged over 1250m and in the fastest of these the 4yo William Longsword gelding DUMBLEDORE registered his third career victory.
Confidently ridden by Richard Fourie, Dumbledore was always positioned close to the pace. He took up the running 300m out and won well by a length and three quarters.
CRS Premier Yearling Sale 13/14 March Open Maiden 1400m
The open maiden event was the faster of the two 140m races on the card and here we saw a smart performance from the lightly raced CHASINGTHERAINBOW.
The pace was a fair one and the son of Potala Palace was content to sit 10th some nine lengths off the frontrunning Victor Hugo for most of the journey.
He ran on best of all when the field began to concertina halfway down the straight and recording the fastest 400m to finish time of the afternoon he got up late to score by a neck.
Winx Open Maiden 1500m – false course record
What is interesting about this race is that it broke the publicized course record of 91.1 by 0,26 seconds. However, basic mathematics, and indeed some logic, tells us that if the 1400m record is 81,98 and the 1600m record is 94,64 then the 1500m record should be in the region of 88,31.
As it is not a regularly used distance though it could be that all of the previous races had been comparatively slowly run. Either that or the course record was incorrect. Although by no means record breaking, the pace was nonetheless a fair one here.
The winner KLEINZEE raced sixth and was four lengths off the leader turning for home. He ran on well over the final 400m and although Wehaveasituation did complete the 400m-finish segment in a marginally faster time, he won with some in hand by two.
Perfectly Placed Class 5 – 1250m
Comfortably the slowest of all the races rounding the turn, the time of this race was over 1,5 seconds slower than all of the other 1250m races. In what effectively was a 600m sprint then, TAMBOURINE MAN led them into the straight. He was headed 400m out but rallied gamely under a determined ride from Craig Zackey, and got back up 100m from home.
Fastest Times:
- 1250m (4) Dumbledore 73,94
- 1400m (2) Chasingtherainbow 85,06
- 400m-finish Chasingtherainbow 2153
