No. 1968
MONDAY 26th - THURSDAY 29th AUGUST 2013
ISSN 1023 / 6996
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FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday) p.4
SCOTTSVILLE
12:10pm (Tuesday) p.11
KENILWORTH
Progressive. The Glen Kotzen trained Dynasty gelding Alexander is a promising stayer in the making and looks ready to land the hat trick at Scottsville on Tuesday
12:35pm (Wednesday) p.17
VAAL
1:05pm (Thursday) p.30
PINNACLE STAKES at Scottsville on Tuesday
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Yet another promising son of top sire Dynasty takes his next step up the ladder to better things. Glen Kotzen’s promising 4yo Alexander has excelled since trying ground and he looks the business in the headliner at Scottsville on Tuesday. This will be his first serious test and he looks equal to the challenge.
ighlands stallion Dynasty has produced the goods on the track with pleasing regularity and the former SA Horse Of The Year and sire of multiple Equus Award winners looks to have another potential champion flagbearer in Alexander.
Cracking
Alexander has caught the attention and won his last two races in cracking style under SA Champion apprentice Nooresh Juglall. In his absence in Mauritius, Anthony Delpech takes the reins. That is what we’d call a more than able replacement! Alexander won his maiden by a country mile and last
time stepped up in an MR 74 Handicap over the Clairwood 2800m. He won readily in a superb post maiden effort when nabbing the promising Kalmia on the line in a big field.
a narrow defeat last time, and is held in high esteem by his connections. Kalmia ran a very smart fifth to Silvano’s Jet in the KZN Derby and has beaten Alexander previously. The latter has improved substantially though and swooped in stunning style to get his measure last time. There should not be much in it.
Memorable
Duncan Howells’ grey Knight To Remember is the Stayer obvious class in the race with Paul Gadsby’s good staying two good recent placings in Kahal gelding Kalmia is 1,5kgs the Gold Vase and the Gold better off with Alexander for Cup to his credit. He ran on
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strongly in both those features and is obviously edging back to his best as a relatively lightly raced 7yo. He is the single biggest obstacle to Alexander registering a hat trick of wins and if on song, will go close in a race where his trainer appears to be ensuring a fast pace with the back up of his recent maiden winning stablemate.
Shocker
The Ivan Moore trained Eton Mess was a shock winner at his penultimate start over the Clairwood 2500m when downing subsequent Gold Cup winner Jeppe’s Reef in
a rousing finish. The son of Jallad is not the soundest fellow in town, and ran close on eleven lengths behind Kolkata in the Gr2 Gold Vase at his last outing. That said, he obviously has plenty of talent and ability when able to put his best foot forward and has won from 1200m to 2500m. Cont. p.2