No. 2032 ISSN 1023 / 6996
MONDAY 7th - THURSDAY 10th APRIL 2014
Impressive recent maiden winner Eurakilon looks to have plenty of scope
FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday) p.4
CLAIRW0OOD 12:55pm (Tuesday) p.11
DURBANVILLE 12:20pm (Wednesday) p.18
VAAL 12:00pm (Thursday) p.29
MR77 HANDICAP at Vaal on Thursday
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The feast of the Classic Day thrills last Saturday would have fired the passion for top quality racing, but punters go back to the staple diet this week with competitive racing the order of the moment. easoned handicappers face lightly raced but possibly upwardly mobile sorts in the topliner at the Vaal on Thursday where the equine ATM
Henry Higgins should earn again. The well bought Triple Crown pretender Louis The King would have probably inspired prospective owners in the direction of their bank managers on the eve of the
and buying racehorses. It is horses like the son of Black Minnaloushe that make this game look easy.
Staple Diet
National Yearling Sale later this month. Having realised some 40 times his purchase price of R55 000, he is a glorious advert for the sale and the sometimes feel in the dark pursuit that is bidding on
But back to the bread and butter lunches, where two relative cheapies catch the eye in Thursday’s topliner. At R45 000 on the old version of the present day March Yearling Sale, Paul Peters’ Henry Higgins has won no triple crowns but has
Handicapper rated him...
MR 118 Dynasty – Moonlit Prairie by Cozzene
Won x3 Gr1
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Second x2 Gr1
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st “By far the be e w e rs ho classic in ce ra en se have for South Africa many years”
Second x2 Gr2
banked ten winning cheques and placed 13 times. The Varsfontein Stud bred son of the deceased Caesour ran last Tuesday on the sand in the Riverside Handicap when the 3yo Tommy Gun gave all and sundry a solid galloping lesson when winning by ten lengths. Henry Higgins followed in his wake and did best of the rest of a bunch of seasoned sandsters. Fair enough, The Mousketeer had no luck
when walking out of his gate, but beyond the Spies 3yo, Henry Higgins was not disgraced. Cont. p.2
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