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Today's Racing :

Neisius reaches century in style

MICHAEL CLOWER
Karl Neisius stole the show at Kenilworth over the weekend when he won seven of the 18 races, including five yesterday when he swept through the season’s 100-winner barrier.
He reached his century - the 11th of his career and for the fifth time in the past seven seasons - on one of the easiest of his septet, Joe’s Legacy for Mike Bass and Hassen Adams in yesterday’s 1 000m maiden (race three), but Saturday’s double for Bass was vintage Neisius.
On Marsh Shirtliff’s Kambrook in the 1 200m handicap (race seven) he sat plumb last for over half the race and hit the front two strides from the post without ever looking either beaten or anxious.
Two races earlier he rode hotpot Stimela in the juvenile plate. A furlong out he had all of four lengths to make up and he duly got there, although this time he had to really get down to work to score by a neck and a head.
“I always thought I would get there, and I did,” he reported. “But then I was under pressure to hang on.”
Crowning moment
Bass, with four yesterday, is also on a roll. He had his 100th winner of the campaign, and his sixth of the weekend, when Neisius scored on Crown Hill in the 1 600m handicap (race eight).
Super Model in Saturday’s concluding maiden was one of the most impressive winners of the meeting, with MJ Byleveld’s mount making amends for her disappointing debut here in May.
“I’d been shocked by that first performance because she had shown me so much at home. But she came back sore,” said trainer Brett Crawford, seemingly still reeling. “I’m not sure she will get the mile of the Cape Fillies Guineas but she does have a relaxed temperament and she’s a class act.”
Grant van Niekerk also had a good two days, winning three races including Saturday’s mile conditions race on Riaan van Reenen’s rapidly-improving A Daughter’s Legacy who has now won her last three, accounting for the luckless Ladonna on increasingly unfavourable terms each time.

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