Brazuca goes for G2 Sprint
TALENTED: JANSE VAN VUUREN’S CHARGE RUN SUPERBLY IN GOLDEN HORSESHOE Meeting also sees running of ‘Rider Cup’.
Durban
Flashy Australian-bred colt Brazuca, just touched off in a thrilling finish by favourite Seventh Plain in the R600,000, Grade 1 Durban Golden Horseshoe on Vodacom Durban July Day at Greyville on Saturday, heads the entries for the R200,000, Grade 2 Umkhomazi Stakes over 1200m at Greyville on Mercury Sprint day on Saturday, 18 July.
The race is one of four supporting events for the country’s premier weight-for-age sprint, the R750,000, Grade 1 Mercury Sprint, that was previously run at Clairwood and will now be run at Greyville for the first time.
The meeting will also see the running of “The Rider Cup”, the inter-provincial jockey challenge for South African riders over four races with four-man teams from KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and the Western Cape competing for total prize money of R100,000.
Trained by Johan Janse van Vuuren, Brazuca ran a fantastic race under jockey Weichong Marwing, fighting out a fantastic finish with Seventh Plain and Arabian Beat, eventually finishing second.
Also among the entries for the Umkhomazi Stakes is the Michael Roberts-trained Argonaut gelding Natal that went down by about a head to Cutting Edge in the R1million KZN Yearling Sale Million that closed off the country’s biggest meeting.
Buckinghamshire, the Australiancolt from the Justin Snaith stable who inflicted the only defeat on Seventh Plain when they met over 1000m in the Cape, is also among the entries.
The Debutante, the two-yearold race for fillies, has attracted 22 entries including SA Nursery winner Frosted Honey and Speedy Suzy who finished fourth in the Allan Robertson Championship.
In the Off To Stud Stakes for four-year-old fillies and mares over 1600m, the winner of the Track And Ball Handicap at Greyville on July Day, Resolution is among the 25 entries along with the consistent Dennis Drier filly Gathering Fame. – GoldCircle
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29 ASHTON PARK (M W Bass) 60.0 25 BARBOSA (D R Drier) 60.0 13 CAPTAIN OF ALL (D R Drier) 60.0
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30 GULF STORM (B Crawford) 60.0 6 KOCHKA (A Wright) 60.0 15 LEGISLATE (S J Snaith) 60.0 20 MOOFEED (M F De Kock) 60.0
12 MR WHATEVER (P L Lunn) 60.0
4 ROYAL ZULU WARRIOR (K Naidoo) 60.0
19 SHEIK'S BRASHEE Wright) 60.0 7 TEVEZ (M W Bass) 60.0 28 TOMMY GUN (C Spies) 60.0 21 WHITELINE FEVER (S G Tarry) 60.0
8 WILLOW MAGIC (S G Tarry) 60.0
32 ACT OF WAR (J Ramsden) 59.526 AFRIKABURN 59.5 14 ANJAAL (M F De Kock) 59.5 17 BELONG TO ME (J A Janse van Vuuren) 59.5
1 BRUTAL FORCE (J Ramsden) 59.5 24 FIRE HORSE (C Spies) 59.5 23 FOREST FOX (P A Peter) 59.5 16 ISPHAN (M G Azzie) 59.5 5 TRIP TO HEAVEN (S G Tarry) 59.5
27 AFRICAN DREAM (M Dixon) 57.5
10 FLY BY NIGHT (M W Bass) 57.5 18 JET BELLE (G S Kotzen) 57.5 3 BICHETTE (S G Tarry) 57.0 11 CARRY ON ALICE (S Tarry) 57.0
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