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Today's Racing :

My Kazzie confirms her class

David Thiselton
THERE was some interesting racing at Clairwood yesterday, which featured a strong headwind.
The third, a Novice Plate over 1 200m, was won by the two-time Grade 1 runner up, My Kazzie, under Bernard Fayd’Herbe. My Kazzie was just off the pace for most of the trip and it was her class coupled with the strength of Fayd’Herbe that enabled her to pull clear of the challengers Street Cred and West End.
Film producer, Anant Singh, who owns her in partnership with his wife Vanashree and Barry Irwin’s Team Valor was on course to lead her in. Trainer Neil Bruss, for whom she had her first run, said that her long term targets would be the Gr 1 Paddock Stakes and Gr1 Majorca Stakes during the Cape Sizzling Summer Season.
In the previous race another classy type,
the Herman Brown-trained three-year-old Argentinian-bred colt Antius, won impressively on debut. This strongly built chestnut is by Pure Prize and is out of a Grade 3 placed stakes winning half-sister to the sire Roy.
He was right up with the pace throughout before pulling clear and 1,5kg claiming apprentice Jassurick Jordaan was looking over his shoulder in the finals stages. He won at odds of 15-2 by two lengths from Sense Of Speed and Captain Universe and Jordaan confirmed that he was still very green.
Assistant trainer Frank Robinson said,
“He’s very well-bred. He’s got a lot of speed and looks like a sprinter, but he settled nicely and the dam is by Affirmed so there is some stamina there.
“The next run will show us where we are.”
In the first, a maiden over 1 200m, the Sean Tarry-trained three-year-old Var filly Variety Show put her disappointing debut behind her, but also gave the form of the promising Dennis Drier-trained Miss Zummerudd yet another boost. This was the sixth winner to come out Miss Zummerudd’s maiden win.
The fourth saw Vodacom Durban July winning jockey Anthony Delpech at his best, covering up the Wendy Whitehead-trained Good Thing as the pacesetters faced the full brunt of the headwind. The conditions suited Good Thing and he ran on past the Tarry-trained Nimley in the final stages.
Delpech has been riding in more than one centre this season and said last week regarding a bid for the Jockey’s Championship, “I will see how I’m going half-way through the season before deciding.”
In the fifth, a competitive handicap over
1 200m, the Yogas Govender-trained Choice Wood went down superbly to the start and came back just as well under another strong ride from Fayd’Herbe.
The first time blinkers did the trick with this four-year-old Fort Wood gelding, seeming to shirk the issue in his last race.
In the fifth a Merit Rated 99 Handicap over
1 600m, the Dennis Drier-trained Sharks Bay was also suited by first-time blinkers. He tended to hit a flat spot in the straight in previous races but this time he came through full of running to win by 0,25 lengths under Stuart Randolph.
Drier and Randolph picked up a quick double when Sheik The World just got up to deny the Mike Bass-trained We Have Lift Off in the seventh, a MR 71 Handicap over 1 600m.
In the last race Muzi Yeni on the Kumaran Naidoo-trained Ras Malaai got the better of a dual with the Brown-trained Go Get It.
Meanwhile, Kevin Shea took part in an International Jockeys challenge, the Gallop Hermes Trophy, at Deuaville in France on Saturday. The French jockeys dominated the event with Maxine Guyon winning from Olivier Peslier and Stephane Pasquier.

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