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Today's Racing :

The champ’s back in business

David Thiselton
South Africa’s three-time Horse Of the Year, Pocket Power and his likely chief adversary for the forthcoming Cape’s Sizzling Summer Season, Big City Life, are coming to the end of their rests and will shortly be back in training.
Mike Bass said from his Milnerton yard earlier this week that Pocket Power had picked up a niggle with his joint in his last start in Durban in the Champions Cup, in which he was a shock loser to the Joey Ramsden-trained Ivory Trail.
Bass said that he had wanted to bring Pocket Power back last week, but is still waiting for the joint to clean up 100%, so will probably put him back into training only later this week or next week.
Pocket Power has been resting in Bass’s Milnerton paddocks since returning from Durban.
Bass said that Pocket Power's summer campaign would depend on how much time he had to get him ready.
At the moment he envisaged him starting with a sprint before defending his crowns in the Queen’s Plate and J&B Met, two races he has won for the last three years in succession.
Big City Life, winner of three Grade 1 races including this year’s Vodacom Durban July, has been resting at Glen Kotzen's Woodhill Racing Estate in the Paardeberg since returning from Durban.
The yard said that he had enjoyed his break and was “healthy and full of himself.” However, they added that he appears to be missing racing. “He was born to race,’’ they said, “Whenever we put a saddle on him his eyes brighten up.”
Kotzen returns from Mauritius today and Big City Life will shortly be back in training.

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