No. 2000
TUESDAY 17th - THURSDAY 19th DECEMBER 2013
ISSN 1023 / 6996
SCOTTSVILLE 12:40pm (Tuesday) p.3
TURFFONTEIN NIGHT 5:20pm (Tuesday) p.12
KENILWORTH 12:15pm (Wednesday) p.20
VAAL 11:35am (Thursday) p.33
PINNACLE STAKES at Turffontein on Tuesday
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Mike De Kock’s top mare Welwitschia gets a long overdue opportunity to get back to winning ways when she runs from a good draw at Tuesday evening’s Turffontein standside meeting. The notoriously slow starter is her own worst enemy, but she looks too good for her nine opponents over the 1400m. t is quite difficult to believe that the UK bred daughter of Oasis Dream has not won a race for over a year. The frustrating tale is well illustrated by her five second places
in nine runs in the interim, which included a rousing and impressive second ahead of the champion What A Winter in the Gr1 Mercury Sprint run over 1200m at Clairwood towards the end of last season. She is certainly the class
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YEARLINGS at the CAPE ED THOROUGBR SALE ary 23 - 24 Janu
runner in this Pinnacle Stakes. Confined to sprints for the latter part of her career, Welwitschia has shown good ability up to a mile and has a turn of foot that should make her a banker bet for many. The fact that she goes the 1400m also reduces
the impact of any dallying a good fourth to winner, at the start, and she looks a Katy’s Lane. handicapping penalty kick. Jackdore ran second on the sand on Thursday and her her Capable last turf effort when beaten The serious opposition is close on ten lengths behind limited, but both Jackodore Here Comes Billy in the Gr2 and Sea Shadow are capable. Merchants was not inspiring, Piere Strydom rides the but she should find things a Toreador mare Jackodore for lot more comfortable back Sean Tarry. The 5yo mare is a against the girls. very capable winner of 6 races, but has rather surprisingly No Disgrace only ever gone this trip once Sea Shadow was fancied by in her 23 career starts. her trainer to give Espumanti That was in the 2011 Gr3 a run for her money in Starling Stakes when finishing the recent Gr2 Ipi Tombe
Half brother to Gr1 SOFT FALLING RAIN Half brother to Gr1 JACKSON Half brother to Gr1 POTALA PALACE Half brother to Gr1 THE HANGMAN Half sister to Gr1 RUSSIAN SAGE Half sister to Gr1 DIVINE JURY Colt out of Gr1 DANCER’S DAUGHTER Half sister to SWEET SANETTE and FRANNY
Challenge, and after making the pace for much of the trip, was not disgraced in second. Sea Shadow in fact came back strongly there, and while she had no chance with the winner, she easily beat the rest. Cont. p.2
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