MONDAY 22nd - THURSDAY 25th
No. 2280
AUGUST 2016
FLAMINGO PARK 12:20pm (Monday)
VAAL
1:00pm (Tuesday)
GREYVILLE poly 12:20pm (Wednesday) VAAL
1:05pm (Thursday)
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MR86 HANDICAP at Greyville on Wednesday They say that blood rules the land. It doesn’t get too much better on paper than the Joey Ramsden Tapit mare Grey Light who steps out in a modest handicap at Greyville on Wednesday. The daughter of North America’s most expensive stallion found her winning stride last time and she could go in again.
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espite the absence of black type and her relatively ordinary track record of 3 wins from 23 starts, Grey Light looks to have been an astute buy at R700 000 on the Cape Premier Yearling Sale Book 1 for Brian and Kathy Finch.
Striking
Grey Light’s Dad, a striking son of Pulpit, was bought at the Keeneland
September Yearling Sale in 2002 by longtime thoroughbred owner and breeder Verne Winchell who picked out the last horse he would ever buy – the hammer falling at $625 000. Tapit won 3 of 6 starts during his racing career. He captured the Gr3 Laurel Futurity in just his second start and then scored in the Gr1 Wood Memorial in just his fourth start. He finished ninth to Smarty Jones in the 2004 Kentucky Derby.
Tapit’s stud fee was set at $300 000 for 2015, making him North America’s most expensive stallion – and, moreover, the first to stand for that amount since 2008, when Storm Cat, A.P. Indy, and Distorted Humor each commanded that fee. Cont. p.2
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