MONDAY 14th - THURSDAY 17th SEPTEMBER 2015
No. 2182 ISSN 1023 / 6996
FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday) p.4
VAAL 12:00pm (Tuesday) p.12
GREYVILLE POLY 12:55pm (Wednesday) p.25 VAAL SAND 1:10pm (Thursday) p.33
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Racing. It's A Rush MR 100 HANDICAP at Vaal on Tuesday The ‘Z factor’ is an integral thread in the colourful fabric of Gauteng horseracing. It is difficult to pass a raceday without a Zackey, or a Zaki, making the news. The passionate clan steps out in numbers at the Vaal on Tuesday, when the aptly named course and distance specialist Bad Boy Buddy Boy takes on seven opponents in a tightly contested handicap.
ronically the reference to ‘I haven’t got a zack’ indicates that one is broke – the ‘zack’ being the old Australian sixpence. While stone broke and racehorses are known to go hand in hand at times, it is difficult to find anybody who has troubled his bank manager when backing the energetic Dominic Zaki trained Bad Boy Buddy Boy.
IMPRESSIVE first foals for
SINGSPIEL x Alignment by Alzao • 2008
PHOTO: TRACY ROBERTSON
Top Form
The Gary Player Stud bred son of Captain Al is four out of four on the Vaal 1000m turf surface, since cracking his maiden on 17 March in the hands of S’manga Khumalo. He will be ridden by another Zackey on Tuesday – young SA champion apprentice Craig – and has plenty in his favour. The sole recent blot on his copybook was an illconceived (in hindsight,
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Exciting start to this Sire’s career with only a few foals on the ground. Big, strong racy type foals
that is) trip to Greyville on July day. He jumped fancied at 5 to 2 there but was never in the hunt and ran some 8 lengths behind Tiger Territory in a strong race on foreign soil.
last clash but Roy Magner’s hyper consistent son of Kahal could be his biggest threat at the weights. Cont. p.2
Colourful
His return run home at the end of August showed that he suffered no side effects from that road trip. Bad Boy Buddy Boy easily beat Greasepaint at their
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