Oscar ain’t no Wilde bet
De Kock and Murray team up with what looks a solid banker
The feature race of this coming weekend is the R150,000 World Sports Betting Grand Heritage over 1475m to be run at the Vaal.
The Non- Black Type race will be run up the straight and Oscar Wilde, from the Mike de Kock stable, has been priced up as the 7- 2 favourite. The four- year- old son of Dynasty has been allotted 52kg and will be ridden by Callan Murray.
Express from the us is next best at 5- 1 on the bookmakers’ boards. Stuart Pettigrew’s charge will be ridden by Marco van Rensburg and carries joint top weight of 60kg with Mike and Adam Azzie- trained Full Mast who has S’manga Khumalo up.
Rouge Allure will be well suited to the course and distance and the Stephen Moffatt- trained mare is next best at 11- 2.
Whorly Whorly won Race 10 on Saturday at Turffontein under Piere Strydom but Jason Gates has the ride this time while Strydom has taken All Of Me, trained by Corne Spies. They are quoted at 7- 1 and 12- 1 respectively.
The betting yesterday afternoon was: 7- 2 Oscar Wilde; 5- 1 Express-fromtheus; 11- 2 Rouge Allure; 7- 1 Whorly Whorly; 12- 1 What You Are, Strada Statale, Spanish Boy; 14- 1 Full
Mast, Dan The Lad, Golden Pheasant, Naafer; 20- 1 Diorama; 25- 1 Finchatton; 33- 1 Stop For Nothing; 35- 1 Elusive Swann; 40- 1 True Words; 50- 1 Street Flyer. - tabnews
The final field is:
1 – 9 EXPRESSFROMTHEUS (S T Pettigrew) M V’Rensburg 60.0 – 101
2 – 13 FULL MAST ( M/ A Azzie) S Khumalo 60.0 – 101
3 – 16 ROUGE ALLURE ( S Moffatt) G Lerena 59.0 – 99
4 – 11 FINCHATTON ( G Terzi) J Greyling 57.0 – 93
5 – 12 DAN THE LAD ( P F Matchett) M Yeni 56.5 – 94
6 – 15 GOLDEN PHEASANT (C Spies) C Maujean 56.0 – 93
7 – 6 NAAFER ( M F De Kock) L J Ferraris 56.0 – 91
8 – 1 WHAT YOU ARE ( C Spies) P Strydom 56.0 – 93
9 – 10 WHORLY WHORLY (C Binda) J Gates 56.0 – 93
10 – 5 STRADA STATALE ( S J Gray) L Hewitson 52.5 – 86
11 – 2 SPANISH BOY ( M N Houdalakis) C Zackey 52.0 – 85
12 – 8 DIORAMA ( M F De Kock) N Klink 52.0 – 84
13 – 3 OSCAR WILDE ( M F De Kock) C Murray 52.0 – 82
14 – 4 ELUSIVE SWANN ( P F Matchett) C Habib 52.0 – 81
15 – 14 TRUE WORDS ( C Spies) J Penny 52.0 – 78
16 – 17 STOP FOR NOTHING ( S Moffatt) C Bantam 52.0 – 76
17 – 7 STREET FLYER ( P F Matchett) J R Syster 52.0 – 58