MONDAY 13th - THURSDAY 16th
No. 2138 ISSN 1023 / 6996
APRIL 2015
FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday) p.5
VAAL SAND 1:05pm (Tuesday) p.14
SCOTTSVILLE 11:50am (Wednesday) p.26
VAAL 1:25pm (Thursday) p.36
NORTHERN CAPE STAYERS HANDICAP at Flamingo Park on Monday
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Kimberley and Kentucky are worlds apart and Flamingo Park is not Churchill Downs. That’s the geography hint this week for the handicappers from trainer Corne Spies who feels that his winners are being harshly treated at times in the Diamond City.
Bid, who takes on some older opposition in his quest to lift honours in Monday’s R100 000 Northern Cape Stayers. The Lensley trained New Circle looks to be his only danger. Spies said that his horse was fit and well, but admitted Bid For Glory that the weight worried him He saddles the likely slightly, as it has a greater drag favourite and topweighted All effect over ground and the The Bids, a 3yo son of Daring gelding is just a 3yo.
he industrious Spies travels from Harare to Durban and beyond in his perpetual quest to provide his owners with the opportunity of maximising their winning opportunities.
He lamented the handicapper’s wrath that his horses had to bear. “I realise that a solid win deserves the necessary loading from the handicapper, but it is well and good in the context of Kimberley. But do they forget that we have to carry that same MR into other provinces? Look at poor Kiss Me Hardy. It penalises a yard like mine that travels and tries to win races. And surely
19 SELECT YEARLINGS
at the CTS Emperors Palace Select Yearling Sale 18 April, Emperors Palace, Johannesburg
the idea should be to make it attractive for stronger yards to bring quality horses to compete in the lesser centres from a betting turnover perspective?” asked Spies who has obviously had his debates with the NHA.
but Fanie Chambers knows him really well so will give him every chance. He is out of a speedy mare, but he loves Kimberley and won his races so well, I can’t imagine the 2200m will be a problem,” he said.
First Time
All The Bids was coincidentally the first SA winner for his sire, who was imported by the late Neil Sykes of Orangewood Stud. A big individual, Daring Bid is the only son of Unbridled standing at stud in South Africa. A half-brother to a multiple Group winner and Gr1 Preakness Stakes winner, the handsome bay stallion
The versatile and sound as a bell All The Bids has won seven times from 1000m to 1800m and goes the 2200m for the first time. We asked Corne if he felt he would stay. “Look they start on the turn and he has drawn 13, but they have the whole of the back straight to sort that out. This is his first time past 2000m
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with chiselled features looks every bit the $US 1.4 million yearling he was. Injured in a float accident en route to his first run after working up a storm at Hollywoodpark, he was rested for two years and eventually achieved four wins in the USA over 1600-2200m on turf and dirt – he also placed 12 times in the process. Cont. p.2
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