MONDAY 27th - THURSDAY 30th APRIL 2015
No. 2142 ISSN 1023 / 6996
KENILWORTH 1:15pm (Monday) p.4
SCOTTSVILLE 12:30pm (Tuesday) p.10
TURFFONTEIN NIGHT 5:15pm (Tuesday) p.17
FAIRVIEW POLY 1:05pm (Wednesday) p.28 VAAL 12:30pm (Thursday) p.35
Australian-bred Playingtheenemy will go close if settling in the running
R83 000 MR91 DIVIDED HANDICAP at Kenilworth on Monday
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Month end public holiday meetings usually mean decent sized exotic pools and Monday’s Freedom Day meeting at Kenilworth looks capable of providing some generous dividends. Jockey Greg Cheyne has been riding like a demon for the in-form Darryl Hodgson yard and he may just be on the value runner in the day’s topliner.
he Milnerton-based Hodgson saddles a smart coupling of two Australian-bred 4yo’s in the eight horse field for owner Hassen Adams. The MR 91 Handicap is run over 1400m and Cheyne looks to be riding the stable elect, Playingtheenemy. They are a form combination.
Cheyne has ridden a winner for the stable at each of the last three Cape meetings – Triple Bluff (Kenilworth 12 April); Henry Of York, who was ridden unusually from off the pace with fine timing to win at Durbanville on Saturday 18 April; and then Mister Matchett at Kenilworth on Wednesday, who got the better of the free-striding Captain Blackmore in the hands of Richard Fourie, to win a cracker.
Needs To Settle
Cheyne said on Thursday that Playingtheenemy had to go into permutations, but the secret to his winning lay in him settling in running. “I won on him over the course and distance three runs back when he beat the useful Tomba La Bomba. That was purely because he settled. But he unfortunately did not play the game at his last two runs – where he was beaten narrowly. He has been working well though and the well-being of the yard shows in the recent results. I am hoping that there will be
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a pace on and then I expect him to be very competitive.” When asked about the true ability of the son of Teofilo, Cheyne said that he felt that he had the ability to be a four or five time winner.
Stan’s World
race ratings and carries a paperweight courtesy of apprentice Xavier Carstens. But on the surface of it looks to be outgunned and outpaced over this trip. Cont. p.2
Stan Elley saddles the improving 3yo stayer My World, who has won 2 of his last 4 starts – but over 2400m. This could be a sharpener for the second and third legs of the forthcoming winter series. The son of Ideal World holds decent rank on our
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