No. 1948 ISSN 1023 / 6996
MONDAY 17th - THURSDAY 20th JUNE 2013
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KENILWORTH
11:50am (Monday) p.4
VAAL
12:15pm (Tuesday) p.14
SCOTTSVILLE
12:15pm (Wednesday) p.27
All The Experience. Bill Prestage's Moonlight Gambler is well weighted and appears to enjoy the winter ground these days
VAAL SAND
12:40pm (Thursday) p.33
RACING ASSOCIATION MR 90 DIVIDED HANDICAP at Kenilworth on Monday
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The Cape winter and tricky handicaps are inevitable ingredients for a cocktail of healthy exotic bet payouts. That looks the case on the ten race Kenilworth public holiday programme on Monday, where the enigmatic Andrew Fortune will be keen to emerge from his hibernation with a long overdue return to winning ways.
ortune is a legendary crowd favourite in the jockey ranks with his genius in the saddle and his self deprecating ways out of it. He will probably not be
thrilled by the fact that he has not ridden a winner in the Cape in close to two months, although to be fair, he has only had a handful of rides.
he partners the Var gelding Lord Jonathan for Corne Spies in the day’s mainliner. The 3yo, like most of the Spies horses, is probably the fittest horse in the race. Very Fit Lord Jonathan is a winner Fortune has a good a chance of 5 of his 23 outings to date. as any of five runners, when While four of those
victories were registered in the Eastern Cape, he has won at Kenilworth over 1400m. He also has the pace to carry the day here. A glance down his formline shows a smart Listed race two length second to a certain King Of Pain in his baby year. If anything, Lord Jonathan has improved dramatically and strengthened with racing. Fortunes rides him for the first time, and will give him every chance.
coupling of the Indigo Magic gelding Moonlight Gambler, and the two year younger General Assembly. Both of these fellows enjoy the winter going! Moonlight Gambler has been around forever. He is also a stakes winner over the course and distance, albeit a long time ago. He won the 2008 Listed Sophomore Sprint at his third outing beating a fair field, none of whom are racing anymore. Since then he has clocked Love The Ground up the mileage and lines up Trainer Bill Prestage sends for the 63rd time on Monday. out a powerful thirteen win It would be unfair to label
him with the derogatory tags of a mudlark or wet weather wonder, as he has won all year round. But there is no denying that with the mellowing of the years, he enjoys the sting out of the ground and the fact that the sharper sprinters are wrapped in cotton wool at home. Cont. p.2