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Today's Racing :

Cormack off in three weeks

David Thiselton
Sean Cormack, stable jockey to many-times KZN Champion trainer Dennis Drier, will be departing for Singapore on March 15.
Drier said yesterday (Sunday, February 21) that the established KZN lightweight jockey, Alec Forbes, would have the first choice of rides for the yard after Cormack had left
Cormack will be contracted to Basil Marcus, although he has been given a freelance license by the Singapore Turf Club which will enable him to get other rides too. He is currently lying in sixth place on the South African national log with 59 winners.
This was his first full season back since returning from a stint in Australia. Cormack rode two winners, including one for the Drier yard, at Greyville yesterday.
The most impressive winner at Greyville yesterday, was the Alyson Wright-trained Jet Command who remained unbeaten after three starts
and impressed all and sundry including jockey Anthony Delpech.
One for the notebook
This three-year-old colt bears a strong resemblance to his champion father, Jet Master, and won a Merit Rated 84 Handicap over 1 200m in a canter despite running green.
Jet Command, who is owned by John Jones and was bred by Pat and Henry Devine, was chosen by Kevin Wright at the 2008 National Two-year-old Sale.
A topical winner on the day, considering the 2010 World Cup is now fast approaching, was the former soccer-loving horse, Conner McLeod.
The Craig Eudey-trained five-year-old gelding used to spend hours entertaining himself in his stable at Summerveld as a young horse by playing with a soccer ball, biting it and pushing it around with his feet. He hung up his football boots after his racing career started, at which stage he lost interest in the ball. Conner McLeod won yesterday’s fourth race, an Apprentice Handicap over 1600m, under JP van der Merwe.
It was Conner McLeod’s second career win and it was well-timed as he is on the catalogue at Wednesday’s Shongweni February Sale.

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