MONDAY 19th - THURSDAY 22nd OCTOBER 2015
No. 2192 ISSN 1023 / 6996
The grand old man of the sand Uncle Tommy is in form and would be a fitting winner
FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday) p.4
VAAL SAND 1:10pm (Tuesday) p.12 DURBANVILLE 1:30pm (Wednesday) p.23
VAAL SAND 12:45pm (Thursday) p.29
PINNACLE STAKES at Vaal on Tuesday
The final fully professional racemeeting on the Vaal sand track is being held on Tuesday. The racing operator then throws a R680 000 bone to owners and trainers, with an eight race workrider meeting restricted to maidens bringing the curtain down on Thursday.
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t is all rather something of an anti-climax to a drama and soap opera that peaked with Phumelela’s rather sudden dig-up-the-sand announcement in July. But the show looks likely to endure in the months ahead, judging from the lackof-consultation lobby, made
up mostly, one imagines, of owners, trainers and breeders of the sand specialists, who are not satisfied that minds have been applied. There was some light on the horizon, with the news that the racing programme was adjusted in August already and will thus hopefully cater for the low merit-rated bread
and butter types. And then of course, Kimberley is still an option – albeit at half the return on prize money.
Tuesday’s topliner, a 1600m Pinnacle Stakes. Cont. p.2
Our Uncle
But for now, the racing goes on and what a sentimental ending it would be to have the gallant sand warrior Uncle Tommy get back into the winner’s enclosure and win
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