No. 2046 ISSN 1023 / 6996
MONDAY 26th - THURSDAY 29th MAY 2014
FAIRVIEW 12:20pm (Monday) p.3
VAAL SAND 12:40pm (Tuesday) p.12
SCOTTSVILLE 11:40am (Wednesday) p.20
VAAL 11:40am (Thursday) p.33
PINNACLE STAKES at Vaal on Tuesday
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There is plenty of needle in the topliner at the Vaal on Tuesday when Mike Azzie’s sand king Pylon looks to avenge an unlikely defeat last time by Weiho Marwing’s versatile warrior Uncle Tommy. In a high quality race, they are not the only two capable of winning it either and St John Gray and Sean Tarry will be out to settle a few scores of their own. he R120 000 Pinnacle Stakes to be run over the 1450mhas attracted as good a quality field we could hope to
put together anywhere in the country on this surface. The proven campaigners are complimented by the up and coming Shadow Line, who steps into the big league after showing smart ability recently.
All The Twelves
The Kahal chestnut Uncle Tommy goes for his twelfth win in an extraordinary career where he has changed stables three times and run his races across the country.
His ability has been best exposed on this surface and his last win when beating the fancied Pylon in the Listed Highveld Sand Challenge was a particularly impressive effort. Interestingly, S’manga Khumalo takes over the reins on Uncle Tommy from Cape based Richard Fourie, who rode such a cracker of a race last time. The two jockeys could land up fighting over the SA champion jockey title trophy yet and with a lead cut to the
Highlands Farm’s outstanding resident stallion Dynasty had a superb hatrick of winners over the past weekend;
FUTURA DYNASTY’S PRIDE DESROCHES
teens, Khumalo will be keen to win this. He meets the top class Pylon on the same weight terms and it is difficult to imagine that the marginal drop in distance will favour either one of them particularly. There should thus be precious little in it.
out at the top of our ratings. She loomed dangerously in the Listed Queen Of The Sand last month but was outgunned to the tune of four lengths by Mike De Kock’s surprise winner Silent Force. Cont. p.2
Get In Line
St John Gray’s Sarge mare Formation also just happens to be going for her twelfth victory and she has come
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