Champion trainer Sean Tarry will be taking two horses to Port Elizabeth on Sunday to contest the R350,000 Betting World Algoa Cup. The Grade 3 race is run over 2000m on the turf track.
Tarry’s two runners are Orchestrated, to be ridden by S’manga Khumalo, and Stonehenge, who will have Donavan Mansour aboard. Orchestrated has won four of his 15 starts and has placed on another eight occasions. The son of Jay Peg is one of those horses who performs well on the sand and on the turf.
This could be a shrewd move by Tarry because if, as has happened before, inclement weather results in the meeting being moved to the Polytrack, he has a horse who could win on either surface. Orchestrated four wins have been over 1600m and 1700m and he has yet to prove he stays 2000m. In fact, the last time he raced over the trip he was beaten 8.25 lengths by stable companion Stonehenge.
However, Orchestrated did run well enough in the Listed Aquanaut Handicap over 2450m at Turffontein in heavy going when a 4.25-length fourth behind Cool Chardonnay.
In the Algoa Cup he is well drawn at No 2 and has just 52.5kg to carry.
Stonehenge has raced 11 times for two wins and four places but his best effort came in the Listed Derby Trial over 2000m at Turffontein last season when he finished a 2.25-length second behind Legal Eagle. Unfortunately Stonehenge has drawn No 14 but over this distance that should not be too much of a disadvantage.
Justin Snaith saddles three runners in Krambambuli, Current Event and Masterly, while Glen Kotzen sends out Political Playboy and Gone Baby Gone.
There are two other visiting trainers with runners in the main event. Vaughan Marshall has sent Gothic while the Mike Bass yard will be bringing Mountain Master. MJ Byleveld and Grant van Niekerk are the respective jockeys on the two runners.
Top weight is local star Gogetthesheriff, trained by Jacques Strydom and to be ridden by Raymond Danielson. They have been allotted 61kg and will jump from barrier No 8. The five-year-old son of Go Deputy has won seven of his 14 starts since arriving in Port Elizabeth, of which six have been on the Polytrack.
Final field for the R350,000 Betting World Algoa Cup (Grade 3) over 2000m at Fairview (turf track) on Sunday 25 October.
1 – 8 GOGETTHESHERIFF (JVA Strydom) R Danielson 61.0 – 105
2 – 9 KRAMBAMBULI (S J Snaith) A Fortune 57.5 – 100
3 – 4 GOTHIC (V H Marshall) M Byleveld 56.0 – 95
4 – 13 POLITICAL PLAYBOY (G S Kotzen) A Domeyer 54.5 – 92
5 – 10 SYMBOLIK (D Sham) K Zechner 54.5 – 92
6 – 15 KALAMAIN (A C Greeff) G Cheyne 53.5 – 92
7 – 5 ZESTFUL (JVA Strydom) X Ndlovu 53.0 – 89
8 – 6 CURRENT EVENT (S J Snaith) R Khathi 52.5 – 88
9 – 1 MOUNTAIN MASTER (M W Bass) G van Niekerk 52.5 – 88
10 – 2 ORCHESTRATED (S G Tarry) S Khumalo 52.5 – 88
11 – 12 TAARISH (M Wiese) J P v’d Merwe 52.5 – 88
12 – 3 MASTERLY (S J Snaith) K de Melo 52.0 – 87
13 – 7 GONE BABY GONE (G S Kotzen) C Zackey 52.0 – 86
14 – 14 STONEHENGE (S G Tarry) D Mansour 52.0 – 85
15 – 11 SILENT PARTNER (M Wiese) …………… 52.0 – 79
Same Trainer: (1,7) (2,8,12) (4,13) (10,14) (11,15)
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Picture: Sean Tarry
