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Today's Racing :

Pocket Power to stay in training

MICHAEL CLOWER

Pocket Power is back in Cape Town and, after a short break, the three-time Equus Horse of the Year goes back into training.
The eight-year-old will attempt to win the Queen’s Plate for the fifth consecutive season and the J & B Met for the fourth time in five years.
Mike Bass said: “He had a week off in Durban and he will go out into a paddock for another couple of weeks. Then he goes back into work and he will race through the summer.
“He ran well in Durban apart from the July and you can’t count that because he had no chance once they took down the false rail.”
River Jetez, Pocket Power’s year younger full sister and this year’s Met winner, returned to Bass’s Milnerton yard on Saturday. She will shortly go into quarantine in Kenilworth with a view to joining Mike de Kock’s Dubai raiding party. She will be aimed at the top filly and mare races at the Carnival.
Part-owner Marsh Shirtliff said: “We were going to retire her but she has been running so well that we decided she should go to Dubai.”
Sparkling Gem, the Justin Snaith-trained winner of the 2008 Cape Fillies Guineas, heads the entries for next Saturday’s Champagne Stakes but she will miss the Grade 3 and she will not race again.
Chris Snaith said: “She has been retired. She’s done us proud and she is such a beautiful big mare that we know she will do well at stud.”

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