Winter Comes Quickly
A champion miler weighted to win. Variety Club let nobody down when he won the Gr3 Winter Guineas at Kenilworth in great style.
21st April 2012
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A champion miler weighted to win. Variety Club let nobody down when he won the Gr3 Winter Guineas at Kenilworth in great style.
On paper that’s our simple conclusion that Cape champion 3yo Variety Club will win the Winter Guineas
Variety Club is well in at the weights in the Cape Derby, but the dark horse of the race is Jackson.
The 3yo form faces its first acid test in top flight unrestricted company when two members of the 2008 foal crop square up to nine seasoned campaigners in the Gr1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate
Broken hearts and dented reputations littered the countryside as Variety Club took the first major colts’ classic of the season by the scruff of the neck under a faultless ride from Anton Marcus, who frankly may have ridden most of his rivals to sleep in the Gr1 Cape Premier Yearling Sales Cape Guineas.
Silver Flyer may have upped his game by a notch or two since being fitted with blinkers and can follow up on his impressive recent display in the Gr2 Dingaans by winning the Cape Guineas.
Variety Club underlined his status as one of the best three-year-old milers around and entrenched himself as a leading Guineas prospect when he narrowly won the Selangor Cup over 1600m on the Kenilworth winter course on Sunday.
Variety Club showed his elders (and one fellow sophomore) a clean pair of heels to land the spoils in good style.
While there has been widespread public support for the flamboyant sportsman, the door has been shut in terms of his options via the SA racing regulator channels
The LONGINES IJC is the most prestigious jockey challenge in the world and the most lucrative for the winning rider!
