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Today's Racing :

Bosch strikes with Noble Heir

David Thiselton
The lightning fast grey filly, the Dennis Bosch-trained Noble Heir, added valuable bold black type to her CV when leading from pillar to post in the Grade 3 Tommy Hotspur Handicap run over 1 000m at Turffontein on Tuesday night.
This daughter of Kahal was bred by Brendan and Candice Norman’s Connington Stud and has always seemed best suited to the minimum trip.
When there is a bit of cut in the ground she is particularly lethal so the showers that fell prior to the start of Tuesday’s race and led to the abandoning of the two subsequent races would have been welcomed.
Turffontein has been a happy hunting ground for Noble Heir and she was voted the KZN Breeder’s Champion Female Sprinter of last season thanks largely to her second place in the Grade 2 Camellia Stakes over 1 160m at that course in April last year.
Noble Heir has been able to kick again late on in her last two 1 000m wins and on that evidence she will have an outside chance of staying the 1 200m of the Grade 1 SA Fillies Sprint, particularly if the going turns out in her favour.
Noble Heir is the second foal of the four-time winning Kilconnel mare from 1 300 - 1 400m, Irish Honour.
Irish Honour’s next foal was a colt by Connington’s resident stallion, Tiger Hunt, who finished fourth in the Breeder’s Cup juvenile. He is called Honour The Tiger and is in training with Gary Alexander.
The full-brother to Honour The Tiger will be offered at the KZN Yearling Sales in June which has switched venues to the TBA complex at Gosforth Park due to the World Cup.

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