No. 2044 ISSN 1023 / 6996
MONDAY 19th - THURSDAY 22nd MAY 2014
The speedy Jimmi Choo tops our ratings in a very open contest
FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday) p.3
VAAL 12:45pm (Tuesday) p.10
DURBANVILLE 12:50pm (Wednesday) p.22
VAAL SAND 12:35pm (Thursday) p.28
MR 91 DIVIDED HANDICAP at Vaal on Tuesday
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The Leon Erasmus trained Jimmi Choo started his career with a bang as a superfast 2yo stakes winner. Johan Botha’s Bezrin gelding also won early in his 3yo season but things have not exactly gone swimmingly for him since. A flicker of a revival at his last start suggests that he is edging back to his best again and he may be the value on the Vaal inside track on Tuesday. n a tough little race to crack, historical analysis may be the way to go, with many of the runners having gone through lean patches in recent times. And, while backing
favourites may work for the bigger players, the ordinary punter remains on an eternal quest for value.
Top Rated
Jimmi Choo’s recent form is less impressive
than a standard grade pass in woodwork, but on our analysis he falls into the value category. He tops our ratings in the final leg of the jackpot, an MR 91 Divided Handicap, and could be ready to bounce
back to best, if running sound. And why not consider doing your form study and assessment before being influenced by an external factor like the betting, for instance? After all, it stands to reason that unduly short favourites, or even double figure odds, can have their own impact on the way the individual structures bets.
Bargain Blitz
Once described by regular pilot Sherman Brown as
TFR 119 at 2yrs (USA) Distorted Humour – Visions of Clarity by Sadler's Wells
Undefeated
t “He was mos e th at ve impressi rs de ee Cape Br ing!” Stallion even
• Champion Irish 2yo • Gr1 winner
‘too fast for his own good’, the R50,000 2012 KZN Yearling Sale buy is out of the Northfields mare Ambleside, who raced just twice in Zimbabwe and never won a race. The speedster, cleverly named on a variation of a British high fashion house that produces luxury shoes and handbags, won the Listed Storm Bird Stakes as a 2yo and was also runner up in the Listed Protea Stakes. That is not to mention a fair fourth behind Willow
Magic in the 2013 Gr1 SA Nursery. Disqualified once, and recurring unsoundness, have plagued his 3yo season where he has tumbled from a career high MR of 109 down to 90. Cont. p.2
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