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Today's Racing :

MICHAEL CLOWER

Hospitality galloped into the Canon Gold Cup picture with an impressive performance in the Chairman’s Cup at Kenilworth on Saturday.
Richard Fourie swept him to the front passing the stands with a circuit to run but this was no all-the-way romp. Early in the straight MJ Byleveld set Arboreal alight to such effect that his mount looked sure to give Joey Ramsden his fourth successive win in this race.
However Fourie, almost alone, knew that he was playing with the leader like a cat with a mouse and well inside the final furlong he pounced to win going away by a length.
Fourie explained: “I said I would let Hospitality fall asleep in front. I gave him a nice breather in the straight and I decided to leave my stick to the end. He’s something to look forward to.”
The Badger’s Drift gelding is trained by Mike Stewart for Georgina Jaffee and her brothers Mark, Richard and Lloyd. He was bred by their parents, Laurie and Jean Jaffee.
Stewart, receiving the trophy from Vidrik Thurling, said: “Things didn’t go his way in the J & B Reserve Stayers but this horse is as game as they come and he is going to be a top stayer. His aim is the Gold Cup and he will go for the Gold Vase as well.”
Rose Leheup’s 2006 Gold Cup winner Diamond Quest bowed out with an honourable sixth. The eight-year-old has had an adventurous career, winning in Dubai and twice running at Royal Ascot before returning to land last year’s Gold Vase, and he will now try his hand at dressage and showjumping with Candice Robinson in the saddle.
Andrew Fortune gave up his rides because he wasn’t feeling well and watching Bernard Fayd’herbe winning the Midmar Liquors Handicap (race six) on a ride that should have been his was not exactly calculated to boost the champion’s spirits. But Rebel Knight won well and Eric Sands is going to aim John Robertson and Reg Smith’s top weight at the winter series.
Fayd’herbe took a gamble with some unusual tactics on Salamander Sue in the graduation plate (race eight), steering the favourite wide at the turn and ploughing a lone furrow up the stands-side rails – “I was too far behind and I needed to make up ground. I put my head down and rode for my life.” He collared long-time leader New Forest in the shadow of the post, much to the delight of Yogas Govender who trains Sabine Plattner’s mare.
Pocket Power’s rider completed a treble when landing the finale on Another Giant for Mike Bass and the Australian-bred’s owners Bernard Kantor, Markus Jooste and Marsh Shirtliff.
Fourie was also in treble form. He led 200m out on Jabelle in Fred Wilensky’s colours to win the filly and mare maiden (race three) for Justin Snaith who is in Australia shopping for yearlings.
Two races later Fourie got Mike de Beer off the mark when Gavin Van den Burgh’s Malcolmino shot clear 400m out in the mile handicap. De Beer has a string of 55 and an arrangement which gives Fourie first choice of the stable’s runners.
The ever-cheerful Jesen Vyapooree celebrated his 21st birthday in style by partnering his tenth winner on Glen Puller’s Twinkle Star in the six furlong handicap (race four).
The Andries Steyn-trained Pasadera started at totally neglected 50-1 for the opening WPOTA Workriders Maiden but Sawuthini Qhwaba calmly delivered his mount between horses inside the last 100m in a manner that even Fortune would have been proud of. It was the 35-year-old’s third success.
Blazing Moon, carrying Gerald Maree’s colours, started at a prohibitive 6-10 for the Midmar Maiden Juvenile (race two) but Karis Teetan had to ride him out to land the odds. However Glen Kotzen’s assistant Michael Burns said: “He is still a big baby but he is a horse that will go places.”

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