No. 2020 ISSN 1023 / 6996
MONDAY 24th - THURSDAY 27th FEBRUARY 2014
Exciting. The Jet Master entire Skitt Skizzle steps out on the sand on Thursday and looks a good sort
FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday) p.5
TURFFONTEIN INNER 1:15pm (Tuesday) p.12
SCOTTSVILLE 12:10pm (Wednesday) p.24
VAAL SAND
JC PHOTOS
12:45pm (Thursday) p.31
AUTUMN SAND SPRINT at Vaal on Thursday
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The month end and bumper fields will add up to healthy exotic bet pools for next Thursday’s Vaal Sand double feature. Trainer Leon Erasmus and his stable jockey Sherman Brown will be hoping to repeat their fun and games at the same venue three weeks ago, although there is a progressive runner from the Tarry yard that could stop them dead in their tracks.
he ‘bit of alright’ Tarry horse is the handsome Skitt Skizzle, an exciting lightly raced 5yo, who could be anything if he takes his place in the Autumn Sand Sprint after a good win on Thursday just past.
Power Duo
But the Brown and Erasmus combination are ready to take on the challenge after they made hay at the Vaal on the first Thursday meeting of this month. Erasmus saddled a hat trick, which incorporated the pair scoring a feature
double with Tiger Territory in the Lightning Stakes and Club Captain in the Summer Speedsters Stakes. Both winners line up again in Thursday afternoon’s double feature and it will be quite a feat if they could pull off the non black type feature double again.
Electric Toe
Tiger Territory produced electrifying speed to win the Lightning Stakes but is now asked to go an extra 200m. The 3yo son of Trippi had his stablemate Nice Stride running on well for second under a welterweight of 62kgs and 3,75 lengths away. Nice Stride now meets Tiger Territory on 3,5kgs better terms and the son of Imperial Stride may find the extra 200m to his liking. But Tiger Territory may have other mountains to climb, as we have already intimated.
Cruised In
He bumps an exciting son of Jet Master called Skitt
Skizzle. who cruised in on the Vaal turf last Thursday after a 24 week break from action following an epistaxis suffered when running a good fourth behind the boom Master Of My Fate over a mile at Clairwood in September last year. Skitt Skizzle showed his wellbeing when winning a high quality 1200m handicap beating his stablemate Mythical Palace going away, admittedly in receipt of 7kgs. The entire has won 3 of his eight career starts and has looked something rather special since his double digit margin debut win. He has already been
touted as a possible stallion prospect. Skitt Skizzle has his first run on the sand here and is a longstriding powerful horse who will no doubt have been tested by the proliferation of talent on this surface in the Tarry yard in his work. The betting may well be the best guide, but he should be good enough to beat this lot if he takes to the sand. Cont. p.2