No. 1888
MONDAY 19th - THURSDAY 22nd NOVEMBER 2012
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ISSN 1023 / 6996
Danger Piere Strydom rides the Spectrum filly Amazing Grace for Alec Laird
FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday) p.3
SCOTTSVILLE 12:40pm (Tuesday) p.12
TURFFONTEIN NIGHT 4:55pm (Tuesday) p.19
KENILWORTH 1:00pm (Wednesday) p.32
VAAL 12:05pm (Thursday) p.38
RUGBY 5 FM 90 DIVIDED HANDICAP F&M at Turffontein on Tuesday
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It may not be the quality fare that we have become accustomed to in recent weeks, but an unbeaten Australian-bred daughter of Holy Roman Emperor squares up to a game grey Daylami filly in one of the highlights of Tuesday evening’s nine-race Turffontein programme. he rather middle of the road contest should nevertheless still provide for competitive racing and pleasing entertainment under the lights.
Fair Ability
The final leg of what looks like a rather tough Jackpot bet is a Fillies and Mares Divided Handicap run over 1160m. While there is a mixture of speed and some fair ability in evidence, Robbie Sage’s con-
sistent grey Kalami could come up trumps over a distance generally regarded as short of her best. The race is likely to be run at a frenetic pace, which will mean that Kalami should be running at the leaders late on. The undefeated Lyric’s Wonder is probably Kalami’s biggest danger. The exciting daughter of Holy Roman Emperor will probably need an outing, as she has not seen action for eleven months. A winner from 1200m to 1400m, Coolmore stallion Holy
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Roman Emperor is Timeform's highest rated 2yo ever by Danehill and he has made quite a local impact from very few runners. Lyric’s Wonder, out of a Woodman mare, and is unbeaten in her two sprints. She takes a step up here in the process of attempting to retain her impeccable record.
Late Kalami is a hard-knocking filly who has won 2 of her 14 starts, and was only caught late and narrowly beaten by KZN visitor Bambina Stripes in an
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exciting finish to the SA Fillies Classic at the end of March. She showed tremendous resolve last time out when sneaking through down the rail to catch and beat the powerful front-running Louvre in a 1400m Conditions Plate. Louvre goes some way to adding sparkle to that win as she had previously run a cracker in the Starling Stakes, when only going down 2,25 lengths to Festival Of Fire – when conceding 8kgs. This is a sprint as opposed to the 1800m of the Fillies Classic and the 1400m of her last start, but Kalami is a big-hearted tryer of note, and must be considered a serious runner – even under 63kgs. She will be ridden by underrated heavyweight jockey, Gunter Wrogemann.
Top Record Wallace Tolmay’s Pacific Destiny used to race in the red and yellow silks of her breeder, the late Gunter Reimer. She has the best race record in this field with 6 wins from her 16 starts, and comes off an impressive win in an MR 87 Handicap over 1200m at Turffontein in mid-October. She had fluffed her lines badly on the sand at her previous start in the Emerald Fillies Sprint. She is a course and distance winner who reeled off three wins on the trot at the beginning of this year. Menno Malherbe rides the Miesque’s Approval 4yo Cosmogenic, who has an admirable record of two wins and two seconds from her four starts. It must be of concern that Cosmogenic has not run in
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over 6 months, and her fitness will have to be taken on trust. She beat Amazing Grace at Cont. and from Piere front her last start, Strydom now jumps aboard that one again. Amazing Grace meets Cosmogenic on a kilo better terms than when being walloped 3,25 lengths by her in a Vaal 1200m.
Sweet Sound Amazing Grace has won 2 of her 14 starts and ran a cracker of a third in a mixed company MR 86 Handicap over 1200m at the Vaal in June. Cont. on p2
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