No. 2034 ISSN 1023 / 6996
MONDAY 14th - THURSDAY 17th APRIL 2014
FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday) p.4
VAAL 12:35pm (Tuesday) p.11
CLAIRWOOD 12:50pm (Wednesday) p.24
VAAL
African Gladiator carries topweight in the Flamingo Park feature and is a proven course and distance campaigner
12:50pm (Thursday) p.31
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NORTHERN CAPE STAYERS HANDICAP at Flamingo Park on Monday
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The R100 000 Northern Cape Stayers Handicap at Flamingo Park on Monday hosts a small field, which includes last year’s winner Karlo. While he hasn’t done particularly well here previously, Grant Paddock’s recent PE polytrack multiple winner White House could just be the dark horse with a postage stamp on his back. he seven horse non black type feature field includes a bunch of lightweights that are likely to make topweight African
Gr1 WINNER at 2
Gladiator carry his pudding all the way round the arduous 2200m of the dusty track.
Featherweight
The most attractive aspects of the Windrush gelding
White House’s prospects in this race are not his previous track record in the Northern Cape or the fact that he is rising 9 years of age. After all, in equine terms that’s akin to Granddad trying to outrun
Grandson over the 75m dash at the school athletics day. But on the plus side, White House carries a meagre 48kgs courtesy of apprentice Ryan Munger’s claim and his recent form resurgence on the poly (3 wins from 7 starts) in his adoptive hometown augurs well for his prospects. While we are looking at two different surfaces when comparing Kimberley sand versus Fairview poly, White House gets the weight odds swung in his favour as he
runs off his modest turf rating as against the likes of the proven Kimberley Kid, African Gladiator, who is set to carry 62,5kgs. While he is having his 78th run, the comments of White House’s trainer Grant Paddock post race to a recent win suggested that there is still plenty of life left in the old warrior.
Troublemaker
White House is coupled with the capable Kahal
gelding Trouble Again, who has put in some fair recent runs on the poly. Cont. p.2