MONDAY 6th - THURSDAY 9th JULY 2015
No. 2162 ISSN 1023 / 6996
COASTAL PHOTOS
FAIRVIEW POLY 12:00pm (Monday) p.4 VAAL SAND 12:40pm (Tuesday) p.13 SCOTTSVILLE 12:25pm (Wednesday) p.24
TURFFONTEIN 12:50pm (Thursday) p.32
MR 80 HANDICAP at Fairview on Monday
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After the scintillating high of the Vodacom Durban July on Saturday, we gear back down into the midweek idle for a while. There is plenty of racing entertainment for our staunch supporters and the week kicks off on Monday with a bumper nine race programme on the Fairview polytrack.
he jockey title chase has become a sub-plot in the daily programme and with Gavin Lerena carded with eight rides, his exploits alone are great to watch.
Big Chance
The topliner is the R67 000 1900m MR 80 Handicap, where a 3yo son of Summerhill stallion Admire Main takes on ten opponents. Trained for his owners and breeders, the Scribante family,
by Alan Greeff, Kalamain has plenty to do as a 3yo carrying 61,5kgs, but is on the up and looks a scopy sort with plenty in the tank. After his Guineas Plate win at his fifth career outing at Fairview in mid-November 2014, we suggested he be
pencilled in as one for the notebook. We are proud to confirm that he has not let his followers down in the ensuing seven odd months, and goes to post on Monday as a four-time winner from his ten starts.
Versatile
Kalamain has proven himself fairly versatile too, with three wins on turf and one on the poly- he beat Symbolik rather convincingly last time. He also probably found the East Cape Derby distance of
MR 118 Dynasty – Moonlit Prairie by Cozzene
Won x3 Gr1
• Second x2 Gr1 • Second x2 Gr2
2400m a bridge too far, when fading late to finish 7 lengths behind Joey Ramsden’s well performed St Tropez – who ran on Saturday in the heady league (by comparison to Fairview on a Monday) of the tabGOLD 2200, or Consolation July. His is out of the twotime winning Silvino mare Kalajana, who raced to two wins in the Scribante silks, and was also a Greeff charge. His sire Admire Main is the first son of the breed-shaping Sunday Silence to stand on African soil.
RES HIGHLANDS SI 15 20 for Antonius Pius Dynasty Great Britain Jackson Main Aim* Pathfork Potala Palace Windrush
Greg Cheyne, who was in touch with the leaders on the SA jockey log a month ago (he is now 50 winners behind Gavin Lerena), is Kalamain’s regular rider and gives all of his mounts an optimum chance to win. Cont. p.2
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