MONDAY 6th - THURSDAY 9th APRIL 2015
No. 2136 ISSN 1023 / 6996
KENILWORTH 1:15pm (Monday) p.5
SCOTTSVILLE 12:45pm(Tuesday) p.11
FAIRVIEW 12:55pm (Wednesday) p.23
VAAL 1:10pm (Thursday) p.31
Big Game - the Silvano gelding Run Rhino Run looks quite special
MR 86 HANDICAP at Scottsville on Tuesday
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The Silvano gelding Run Rhino Run has been one for the notebook ever since he made a smashing winning debut late last year. A change of ownership and trainer sees him turning out for Paul Lafferty at Scottsville on Tuesday in the Harry’s Son silks. And the rare midweek engagement of champion jockey Piere Strydom will add plenty of excitement.
afferty and Strydom have formed a cracking combination with the Australian-bred champion 3yo Harry’s Son and although they had to eat some humble pie, courtesy of sticky going in Saturday’s Gr1 SA Classic, they could bounce back with an up-and-coming galloper here. KZN owner Roy Moodley purchased Run Rhino Run from longstanding fellow owner John Jones, and while we are not privvy to
any aspect of the transaction, we can only deduce that his previous yard of the husband and wife combination of Alec and Lezeanne Forbes must be absolutely devastated to have lost him.
No Mistake
The Aldora Stud bred KZN Yearling Sale graduate (originally named Faux Pas) won his second race from two starts over a mile on 18 January and has looked full value for his R240 000 purchase price.
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at the CTS Emperors Palace Select Yearling Sale 18 April, Emperors Palace, Johannesburg
He spreadeagled his older opponents in the MR 78 Handicap and an excited jockey Alec Forbes said afterwards that plenty would be heard about the smart looking 3yo, who was still learning how to race. Despite running very green he won unextended and Forbes said that he had only hit the front early as ‘nothing could go with him.’ On Tuesday Run Rhino Run faces 7 opponents in an MR 87 1400m inside track contest and he looks very capable of landing the hattrick. In fact his new owner Roy Moodley could celebrate his own personal hat-trick as
he has a chance of winning the first three races – Alistair Gordon saddles Roy’s Guardian in the first race, while Jeff Freedman sends the smart looking Roy’s Folly to post in the second.
trot during the Cape winter and it is not beyond the imagination that he could strip fresh after an eleven week break and win over 1400m. He did shed his maiden over this trip and has been exposed – and not disgraced – to much Great Start stronger than what he meets Trainer Dean Kannemeyer on Tuesday. has made a roaring start to Cont. p.2 his 2015 KZN Champions Season campaign with five winners in three meetings over this past weekend and is in hot form. Anthony Delpech rode four of those five winners and he jumps aboard topweighted It Is Written, a 4yo son of Dynasty. Fred Crabbia’s consistent galloper won three on the
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