MONDAY 28th - THURSDAY 31st JULY 2014 JC Photos
No. 2064 ISSN 1023 / 6996
Iron Dragon - Cliffie Miller’s smart recent maiden winner Iron Maiden could resist the visiting challenge at Flamingo Park on Monday
FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday) p.5
DURBANVILLE 1:00pm (Tuesday) p.14
SCOTTSVILLE 12:25pm (Wednesday) p.24
VAAL SAND 12:45pm (Thursday) p.31
R100 000 Kimberley Nursery (NBT) at Flamingo Park on Monday
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There is plenty of feature race action down Flamingo Park way in the next week with the R100 000 Kimberley Nursery headlining Monday’s programme and R435 000 worth of stakes up for grabs in three features on a rare fixture on Saturday. But the Northern Cape remains the orphan of South African horseracing and has got to be the worst marketed racing destination in the country.
here are more hardluck stories about Kimberley horseracing than any other jurisdiction in the country but it remains a popular ‘gut feel get-lucky’ course for many punters. This coming week sees a two meeting festival’ with the local racing awards apparently being held on Friday evening.
of Alastair Cohen and Gareth to get up and call the final Pepper who jet in and jet out. 200m of the race! Only in Kimberley, one might say. Character
There is no hype about the happenings anywhere and we take our hats off to the diehard locals who keep the wheels turning in tough circumstances and provide racing enthusiasts with very different entertainment from what we experience anywhere else. Recent years have heralded changes from the days of Bumpie Schoeman’s commentaries and the late legend Peter Miller’s combined champion trainer, track manager and postrace interviews, to the new generation youth
There is ample legend and myth attached to the dustbowl and the Diamond City racecourse has a unique character all of its own. Commentator Bumpie Schoeman did the Kimberley Monday round trip for 20 years. He left PE at 3am in the morning and drove back after the last race – that is 15 hours behind the wheel! Schoeman told the story of how he was calling a long distance race when he inhaled a cloud of dust from the runners passing the post for the first time. He fell to the floor choking and rolling around while punters cursed the silence, unaware of his fate. He survived and managed
Nursery
On Monday the Kimberley Nursery will be run over the testing 1400m track and with five visiting horses due to start, the race looks very wide open. Corne Spies has a very strong hand with a four-way coupling. Fransie Naude rides the Daring Bid gelding All The Bids, who has only won once in 9 starts but ran a fair fourth to Ajuba in older MR 68 Handicap company at the Vaal on Tuesday. That makes him a fit horse and he should be right in the action when the whips are flailing.
5x Gr1 winner
Beach Beauty
3x Gr1 winner
Legislate
3x Gr1 winner
Jackson
Promising
Fanie Chambers has been engaged to ride the Muhtafal gelding Topostwego for Spies. The Summerhill Stud product has shown promising turf form and beat the rated Azzie inmate Rock Me Var at his second outing. He has two good seconds to his credit to the promising Captain Clipper and Split The Breeze and finished just 3,30 lengths off Afrikaburn in the Gr1 Golden Horseshoe. That is enough to price him up short in this field! Spies’ A P Answer filly Snow Call is the only two-time winner in the race. Cont. page 2
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