MONDAY 16th - THURSDAY 19th FEBRUARY 2015
No. 2122 ISSN 1023 / 6996
FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday) p.4
VAAL 1:20pm (Tuesday) p.12
Flashback - Time stands still as Smanjemanje just fails to peg back Pomodoro in the 2012 Vodacom Durban July
SCOTTSVILLE 12:40pm (Wednesday) p.24
VAAL 12:15pm (Thursday) p.31
KIMBERLEY 1400 at Flamingo Park on Monday Veteran Gauteng trainer Tyrone Zackey reaffirmed the maxim ‘second sucks’ when his favourite equine son and public hero Smanjemanje, once tagged ‘the giantkiller’, was a winner of the 2012 Vodacom Durban July a stride before and a stride after the post. The now 8yo lines up in the R100 000 Kimberley 1400 at Flamingo Park on Monday, where he tries the sand for the first time.
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pparently nobody ever remembers who ran second in life anywhere. But that may not ring entirely true in the case of the present day Klawervlei stallion Pomodoro’s defeat
of Smanjemanje in the 116th renewal of Africa’s greatest horserace. Certainly not for Tyrone Zackey, jockey Grant Van Niekerk and owners George Barker and Nadine and Kevin Backos, who have probably always pondered what so
nearly could have been. It has been a year since the Kahal gelding parted company with Tyrone Zackey in a restructure of the partnership for whom he had run his heart out in exactly 50 races. Zackey was the man who fell in love with the
R210,000 2yo at the Summerhill Ready To Run Sale in 2008 and guided him to within a heartbeat of scaling horseracing’s Everest and entrance to our hall of fame.
July, July, July
When winning on debut, it was three runs later in Ocober 2009, after he beat champion Pierre Jourdan and lost the race in the Turffontein boardroom, that Tyrone told the owners ‘I will win the July for you’. That dream may not have come entirely true but the multiple group winning Smanjemanje was to enjoy the distinction of being the
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Undefeated
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then SA champion breeders Summerhill Stud’s leading moneyspinner of 2012. On Monday he returns from a 15 week break for trainer Tienie Prinsloo and lumps 63,5kgs as he faces eleven less illustrious opponents. Smanjemanje, whose name translated from Zulu means ‘today’s style’, is frankly entitled to look down on them.
in the face for a loyal servant. Let’s face it - Smanjemanje served his owners with distinction. No youngster, he now finds himself consigned to a career in the dusty backwaters of Kimberley.
Cont. p.2
Questions
There is also no doubt that his presence may raise eyebrows in certain quarters. Some may see the move to the Northern Cape as a slap
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