MONDAY 11th - THURSDAY 14th JULY 2016
No. 2268
FLAMINGO PARK 12:15pm (Monday)
VAAL
12:45pm (Tuesday)
GREYVILLE poly 11:45am (Wednesday) VAAL
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12:55pm (Thursday)
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The July jockey musical chairs provided an interesting sideshow to the race itself. Delpech baled from Black Arthur to Bela-Bela. Zechner was on, then off, then on Abashiri. Piere Strydom had the biggest smile though when he ‘landed up’ with a ride that he may not have chosen had he had the pick – and won it. ull marks to the July trainers for the transparency that prevailed around the jockey engagements. Punters – and we in the media – are inclined to make assumptions and be influenced unnecessarily by what we deem to be strategic engagements.
These are often more hit and miss than we would like to believe.
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Like Anton Marcus is always on the ‘right’ Jooste horse - or when Garth Puller engages Marcus, then it’s ‘pay-pay’. Interestingly Marcus was aboard Puller’s first ever winner
MR 124 Dynasty – Moonlit Prairie by Cozzene
Triple Gr1 winner
as a trainer when Foreign Gal won at Clairwood in July 2012. Four years on, and looking at the Greyville midweek card, one such plum jockey booking caught the eye! The day’s topliner is an MR 95 Handicap run on the poly 1400m, and Garth has engaged Anton to ride the promising 3yo Purple Mountains. The son of Var has his second run in KZN since relocating from Garth’s brother Glen at Milnerton. His form in the Cape Summer
Season was eyecatching, if not spectacular, with decent efforts in the Cape Classic, the Selangor and to a lesser extent the Cape Guineas.
Credit Act
Purple Mountains has pulled a peach of a draw and with Marcus up he catches the eye. We asked the Summerveld trainer if we can bond the house. “No, I wouldn’t go taking loans to back Purple Mountains. He is a lovely classy sort and ran a nice race when 4,05 lengths off
RES HIGHLANDS SI 16 20 r fo Dynasty Jackson Pathfork Potala Palace Antonius Pius Great Britain Windrush
• Son of 3x Equus Outstanding Sire Dynasty
the good sort Heartland at Scottsville last time. That was a decent effort given the fact that he was off for four months. But he pulled up a bit ‘jointy’ afterwards and I have had to go a bit easy on him and treat him. We have done an IRAP and I felt that the poly is the right way to bring him back,” said Puller. He added that Marcus would be the right kind of jockey to give Purple Mountains a positive ride and provide some feedback. “It’s a bonus to get Anton!” he laughed. Cont. p.2
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