MONDAY 15th - THURSDAY 18th JUNE 2015
No. 2156 ISSN 1023 / 6996
FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday) p.3
TURFFONTEIN 12:45pm (Tuesday) p.10
SCOTTSVILLE 12:20pm (Wednesday) p.21
VAAL SAND 12:40pm (Thursday) p.28 Doing It For Dan ticks all the boxes with Piere Strydom in the saddle
JC PHOTOS
R120 000 PINNACLE STAKES at Turffontein on Tuesday
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Been there, done it. That’s the Vodacom Durban July story of a classy Right Approach gelding who has kept the racing world guessing about his optimum performance trip. A versatile galloper, Whiteline Fever won’t be at Greyville next month after three gallant attempts to win Africa’s greatest race, and instead steps out in a sprint at Turffontein on the Youth Day public holiday. ompetitive six horse fields for Place Accumulator first legs are notorious bear-traps for seasoned players of the place exotic and there will be few that are bold enough to anchor any of the sextet lining up in the R120 000 Pinnacle Stakes to be run over 1160m.
Quite A Mix
The field hosts a mix of potentially unfit and unsound sorts and Louis Goosen’s Doing It For Dan in the hands of Piere Strydom, ticks more boxes than the rest. But there is no substitute for genuine class and, while not a recognised sprinter, Whiteline
Fever is all heart and as a seven time winner of close on R2 million in stakes, he has been campaigned in the strongest company over his four seasons of racing. It is no secret that his top trainer has always believed he would be a horse who would stay 2000m - and that was a very fair conclusion based on his late-run style finish and superb turn of foot. The 6yo runs on Tuesday after two flat efforts in the Betting World 1900 and the Cup Trial down in KZN and the fitment of the blinkers may well be a flash of
MR 118 Dynasty – Moonlit Prairie by Cozzene
Won x3 Gr1
• Second x2 Gr1 • Second x2 Gr2
inspiration – or a sign of pure desperation. Judging from his winning performances, 1400m is probably his best distance, but with plenty of natural pace here, he could be storming through and cutting them down late.
Topweight
highest lifetime MR of 114 will attest. His best recent run was his four-length fifth (carrying 61,5kgs) behind Aurum Pot over the course and distance on Hennenman Memorial day. Cont. p.2
Whiteline Fever carries joint topweight with the rather out-of-sorts, but talented, Deliver The Power. The unsound 6yo son of Toreador, one of two Zaki runners, is a nine-time winner and a speedball of some note on his day – as his
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