MONDAY 27th - THURSDAY 30th JULY 2015
No. 2168 ISSN 1023 / 6996
Paulus ran a cracker in the Gr2 Umkhomazi Stakes but is back on the sand on Monday
FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday) p.5
DURBANVILLE 1:05pm (Tuesday) p.13
SCOTTSVILLE 12:20pm (Wednesday) p.24
VAAL SAND 1:05pm (Thursday) p.32
KIMBERLEY NURSERY at Flamingo Park on Monday Trainer Corne Spies is the undisputed king of the Kimberley Nursery. On Monday he goes for an extraordinary fifth win in the R100 000 sand baby feature in just six years. He plays a very decent three card hand, headed by a King’s Apostle gelding that ran the race of his life in a Group 2 on the turf at Greyville last Saturday.
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pies has an amazingly uncomplicated and relatively unscientific approach to the business of training racehorses. His ‘get them fit and let them run and take their chances’ approach has seen the yard rack up winners across the length and breadth of the country. And he sure delivers the results for his loyal band of patrons.
Champion
Spies will also be crowned champion trainer of Zimbabwe this season – but more about that in this weekend’s Sporting Post, where he talks frankly about the ins-and-outs of training racehorse North of the Limpopo. He goes for his fourth straight win in the non blacktype Kimberley Nursery - in 2014 he won with Topostwego – in 2013 Hawksworth won it – in 2012 it was Oh So Var - and in 2010 Indigofera galloped
MR 118 Dynasty – Moonlit Prairie by Cozzene
Won x3 Gr1
• Second x2 Gr1 • Second x2 Gr2
to glory. That’s a helluva impressive record and his trio are bound to attract plenty of support, in a field of fourteen that lacks genuine depth. The engagement of jockey Andrew Fortune to ride Paulus from a 1 draw catches the eye. Spies confirmed that the Favour Stud-bred gelding’s run in the Gr2 Umkhomazi Stakes at Greyville last Saturday, when he finished fourth and 3,85 lengths off King’s Knight, had thrown him a curved ball. “A bit of a conundrum,” said
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Corne. No wonder – just five days earlier Paulus had run 16 lengths behind at Flamingo Park! Cont. p.2
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