No. 2092 ISSN 1023 / 6996
MONDAY 3rd - THURSDAY 6th NOVEMBER 2014 The speedy Var colt Harry Lime is highly thought of and could make it a winning season opener
FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday) p.5
VAAL 12:00pm (Tuesday) p.13
KENILWORTH 12:35pm (Wednesday) p.28
VAAL SAND 12:15pm (Thursday) p.35
MR 91 HANDICAP over 1000m at Kenilworth on Wednesday
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There is a tangible sense of serious summer racing in the air down Kenilworth way and the quality midweek topliner at the Southern Suburbs venue hosts the seasonal debut of Justin Snaith’s exciting Var colt, the Gr2 Umkhomazi Stakes winner Harry Lime.
he MR 91 Handicap to be run over the 1000m straight has attracted a speedy bunch of eight. And what a smashing field to lift the midweek action!
Nice Coupling
Justin Snaith has had a quiet time of it in recent weeks, but with the big guns emerging, it won’t be long before the yard starts firing. Snaith saddles a 3yo coupling of Harry Lime and recent Sophomore Sprint winner, Door Of Deception.
R350 000 National Yearling Sale graduate beat another Var in Mike De Kock’s highly vaunted Mastermind by over 3 lengths. The runner-up had won his debut over the same course and distance when starting at a prohibitive 1 to 3.
The Rathmor Stud-bred Harry Lime arrived on the KZN Champions Season scene with a bang in April when he sauntered home to win the Gr2 Umkhomazi Stakes over the Scottsville 1200m on his coconut. Despite lugging out and running greener than an avocado pear, the
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Won x3 Gr1
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Second x2 Gr1
Commendations
Stable jockey Richard Fourie, who is recovering from an injury and only returned to race-riding this past week, was aboard at that win and rides him again on Wednesday. Fourie was full of praise for the Var colt – calling him a ‘lovely horse with a
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Second x2 Gr2
temperament to perhaps be a champion’. Trainer Justin Snaith was also excited and said that not too many horses could work alongside Arria. He joked that Harry Lime was ‘unconscious at home but woke up at the races.’ But Harry Lime did not live up to the confidence. He had two further starts at Gr1 level against his own age group, and while not disgraced, he failed to feature. He returns on Wednesday after a 17 week break, and faces some decent older sprinters.
Opposition
But he needs to overcome his stablemate, Door Of Deception as a first hurdle. The son of Count Dubois has been consistency personified and shocked the Asstar fans when benefitting from a pearler of a Sean Cormack ride to win the Listed Sophomore Sprint at his penultimate start. ....p.2
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