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Yeni gets SA nod for Seoul

Michael Clower
Muzi Yeni has been selected to represent South Africa in the Korean International Jockey Invitational in Seoul on August 21 and 22.
Leading jockeys from America, Australia, Japan, Ireland and Turkey will also take on the Korean jockeys in the four-race series.
Yeni,23, is enjoying by far his best season and 92 of his near-300 career winners have come this term.
The Durban-born jockey said: “For a young rider like me to be given such an opportunity is great, and to represent South Africa is an honour. I am very much looking forward to it.’’
Yeni is the fourth rider to represent South Africa in the Korean Invitational. Gerrit Schlechter in 2007 was the first and he came out top in the challenge. Greg Cheyne and Richard Fourie were more recent travellers.
The link with the Korea Racing Authority was pioneered by Western Cape Gold Circle chairman Vidrik Thurling and has resulted in the KRA sponsoring both the KRA Guineas and the KRA Fillies Guineas.
Thurling is asked annually by the KRA to recommend a jockey and this time he consulted National Horseracing Authority director Robert Bloomberg who said: "Muzi is a very good jockey and he has made massive improvement in the past two years. He will make a good impression in Korea and I thought it was time a deserving rider of colour was chosen."
The all-expenses paid Seoul trip can prove lucrative. Jockeys get US$2 000 a ride, the winner of the series collects a further US$20 000 and there is also a percentage of the prize money

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