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Azzie’s Juveniles on Form

Rika and Adriaan van Vuuren had much to smile about as their juveniles did them proud winning two bonus races on Friday evening and producing another win at Turffontein on Sunday.

Two year old filly Lady Ky (AUS), bred at Rangal Park Stud, Victoria, won the 4^th race, a 1160 metre R85k Maiden Plate (F&M) by 3¼.

The 5^th race went to Game of Thrones. This was the two year olds second start, a 1160m Maiden Plate (R85k). He was bred by Dr I R Heyns – Black Minnaloushe (USA) – Nobly Planned by Northern Guest (USA).

Both Rika and Adriaan are RA members so they were handed two cheques of R20k each by RA CEO Larry Wainstein for winning these two bonus races. Both horses were piloted by Anton Marcus.

Their good fortune continued on Sunday when their two year old filly Moonlit Venice won the R85k Maiden Juvenile Plate over 1450 metres, starting at a generous price of 14/1. She was bred at Highlands Farms Stud – Windrush (USA) – Via Condotti by Raise a Man. Apprentice Collen Storey was pleased as punch to steer her into the winners enclosure.

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Polly lights up the night

Details: Published: 15 April 2014

Summerveld-based trainer Gavin van Zyl completed a quartet of sorts when winning the Gr 1 Laurie Jaffee Empress Club Stakes over 1 600m at Turffontein on Friday night with his champion filly Along Came Polly, whom he said would only have a “limited” Champions Season campaign.
Van Zyl said in the winner’s enclosure post-race that it had been an honour to win a race named after the late owner and breeder Laurie Jaffee.
The win completed a quartet for his yard as they had previously won races named after two equally great owners and
breeders, Graham Beck and Harry Oppenheimer, both of whom he mentioned in his post-race interview, and they have also won a race named after the prominent owner and steward Gerald Rosenberg.

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Whyte rides four-timer

Details: Published: 15 April 2014

Hong Kong – The focus of the jockey championship may be on Zac Purton and Joao Moreira but jockey Dougie Whyte is doing what champions do – hanging around to take advantage of any mistakes by his rivals and landed his first four-timer of the season last weekend.

April 14, 2014

Whyte rode a perfect race on Me Tsui Yu-sak-trained Record Again to win the turf Class Five, showed all his skills to throw Naughty Baby over the line despite the horse’s antics in the seventh then quickly added Boy Oh Boy and Full Talent to keep himself within sight of the leaders, albeit from a distant vantage point.

Purton leads Moreira by 11 wins, with Whyte another eight wins further astern but the South African with 13-straight championships to his name knows that a lot can change in just a few meetings, especially if the winners keep rolling in for him as they did on Sunday.

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