MONDAY 10th - THURSDAY 13th AUGUST 2015
No. 2172 ISSN 1023 / 6996
Tonic or trouble? The talented Harry Lime may be worth following - but fitness is suspect
KENILWORTH 1:10pm (Monday) p.3
GREYVILLE POLY 12:50pm (Tuesday) p.10 VAAL 12:35pm (Wednesday) p.21
VAAL SAND 1:00pm (Thursday) p.29
PROGRESS PLATE at Kenilworth on Monday
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The first Kenilworth racemeeting of the new term hosts an eight race roster on a welcome holiday Monday. A highlight of the programme could prove to be the seasonal debut of some class 4yo’s - including two sons of Var, in that great champion Val De Ra’s brother Vincente and Justin Snaith’s mercurial talent, Harry Lime.
The colt, once labelled a ‘galloper with a temperament to be a champion’ by his regular pilot Richard Fourie, has not exactly delivered on his juvenile promise, after a sizzling Gr2 Umkhomazi Stakes victory two Champions Seasons ago.
he National Women’s Day celebrations on 9 August mean that many will enjoy a well-earned rest the next day - and what better way to spend an unordinarily less-than-blue kickstart to the week, than at Kenilworth? That’s if the rain stays away. The mainliner of the day is a 1000m Progress Plate up the Kenilworth straight, where plenty of class is in evidence amongst the nine contestants.
Two unplaced Gr1 efforts followed that win and then three runs as a 3yo culminated in a fair fourth behind the Europe-bound Varlo in the Need For Speed Sprint, run over Monday’s course and
Trainer Justin Snaith has a class pair in the race, and it is Fred Crabbia’s Rathmor Stud-bred Harry Lime that jumps out of the page – despite some obvious likely ring rustiness, courtesy of his 32 week break from racing.
(GB) Green Desert - Park Appeal (Ahonoora)
Stakes winning sprinter TFR 118 Full brother to CAPE CROSS - sire of Sea The Stars
Quiet Spell
RES HIGHLANDS SI 15 20 for Antonius Pius Dynasty Great Britain Jackson Main Aim* Pathfork Potala Palace Windrush
distance on 27 December last year. Greg Cheyne rides him on Monday, and he could come out firing fresh.
Deceptive
Stablemate Door Of Deception is also a class act and will be ridden by new Snaith Stable jockey, Bernard Fayd’herbe. The son of Count Dubois, a winner of the Listed Sophomore Sprint and the Listed East Cape Guineas at his last outing, shed his maiden over Monday’s course and distance, but
looks a better horse around the turn – and definitely not as quick as Harry Lime. The weight conditions see him carrying 3kgs more than his stablemate – and that may well proof a serious drawback over the minimum cut. Cont. p.2
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