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Rising Sun Gold Circle Racing Carnival to attract bumper crowd to Clairwood

The Glen Kotzen trained Pirate’s Gold heads a smart field of eleven runners that have accepted to run in the R125 000 Rising Sun Easter Handicap, a listed event to be contested over 2000m at Clairwood Racecourse on Sunday, 12 April 2009.
The Rising Sun Gold Circle Racing Carnival always attracts a large long weekend holiday crowd and with live entertainment in between races, flea market and food stalls, fashion, a car show and to end the day a bhangra bash, it will prove to be an excellent day out.
Those attending can expect to be entertained by high quality early season horseracing as many of the feature race runners will have pretensions to greater glory in the forthcoming Champions Season. Heading the list of talented thoroughbreds is the handsome chestnut son of the now defunct American bred stallion Rich Man’s Gold, Pirate’s Gold, who bids to win his sixth race on the trot after a fantastic form revival that has seen him win all of his five starts since Christmas Eve of last year. His last win was his most impressive when he accounted for a strong field in the Grade 3 King’s Cup. His regular pilot Sean Cormack rates him very highly and Sunday’s race represents his next stepping stone in his quest for a tilt at the Vodacom Durban July.
Tony Rivalland sends out the six year old son of London News, London Guest, who has not won since a brilliant victory in the Grade 3 SABC Sport 2200 on Vodacom Durban July day last year. Billed as the consolation July, this performance showed that he has both the class and ability to trouble the best on his day and with the services of Raymond Danielson he represents a big threat for top honours on Sunday. Another Summerveld trainer, Kumaran Naidoo, has the only three-year-old in the field in the attractive gelding Ultra Vires, a course and distance winner and a fellow who could be realistically considered Derby material at this point in his career. He only needs to maintain his improvement to be considered a realistic contender.
Champion trainer Mike de Kock sends out Winter Weather, a winner of the Grade 2 Gold Circle Derby last season. He was hammered by the handicapper after that race and has not recaptured winning form.
Herman Brown Jnr has the only filly in the race in the daughter of Fantastic Light, Leading Light. Running in the famous Linington silks, she shook Clairwood to the core at her last outing when getting to within a 0,25 length of the rising star Lord London. No horse has been this close to Alastair Gordon’s son of Hussonet, so it will be interesting to see how she performs over the extra distance on Sunday and she will certainly have her supporters.
Visiting Cape trainer Vaughan Marshall struck an early blow for the visitors last week when the impressive son of Var, Villandry, stepped out and blew the opposition away in his first start here, and he sends out Ela-Re for well known owner George Nichas. This son of Woodborough is to be partnered by talented apprentice Donovan Mansour and he could be a value horse at long-odds.
All said and done, a tough but interesting poser for punters and plenty of entertainment for the whole family.

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