MONDAY 2nd - THURSDAY 5th MARCH 2015
No. 2126 ISSN 1023 / 6996
FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday) p.5
VAAL 1:00pm (Tuesday) p.13
DURBANVILLE 12:20pm (Wednesday) p.25
VAAL 12:15pm (Thursday) p.31
Darryl Hodgson's fit and in-form Playingtheenemy could register his third win in an open handicap
MR 86 HANDICAP at Durbanville on Wednesday
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A brief two meeting Durbanville interlude punctuates the end of the long hot Summer Of Champions season at Kenilworth, with racing returning to the Southern Suburbs venue next Saturday for the UCT RAG Student Race Day. On Wednesday the diehards will be slugging it out at the country course where a nine race programme looks set to get the punting grey matter working overtime.
enilworth has been on the go for five months now and the condition of the course is a tribute to the expertise of Track Manager Dean Diedericks, who
performs miracles – a reality endorsed by the fact that no complaints have been forthcoming from jockeys and trainers. The change of course to Durbanville is inevitably a catalyst to potential form fluctuations.
Australians
The R74 000 MR 86 Handicap run over 1400m heads the card and a quality eight horse field lines up to do battle. Australianbred horses could dominate matters and here Darryl
Hodgson’s Teofilo gelding Playingtheenemy looks the fit form horse on his first visit to Durbanville. The fast maturing 4yo has won 2 from 17 starts and was hampered last time when the promising Tomba La Bomba turned the tables on his in a strong MR 92 Handicap at Kenilworth. Playingtheenemy’s last three runs have been promising.
Jump For Joy
Another Australian bred and the first of the Snaith duo is the High Chaparral gelding Parachute Man, who enjoyed Durbanville earlier in the season, when winning
Another great Highlands draft.
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2 of his 4 starts here. He is drawn against the paint and had decent lower-grade handicap form before failing to show in the Cape Guineas and the Gr3 Politician Stakes. This will be a lot more comfortable for him.
and has a top jockey engaged. The 7yo topweight Captive Action has not won since May 2014, but he has not been far off them and has performed well at this course in the past. Cont. p.2
Action Man
Oreo Shake is the third of the Australian-bred progeny and stablemate to Parachute Man. The son of Oratorio has won 4 of his 19 starts and shed his maiden at this course over a mile. He was outgunned in his last start when running 6,35 lengths behind Captain America but drops in class
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