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Newsletter THTHURSDAY 9 FEBRUARY 2017 TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017 www.turftalk.co.za

BERNARD Kantor’s Investec holds the singular

honour of sponsoring the richest race ever staged in

Britain, when the 2017 Epsom Derby takes place on

Saturday.

Another South African Markus Jooste is likely to

have a runner in the race – Douglas Macarthur was

on the final list of 20 acceptors for the world’s

greatest flat race yesterday, something Jooste regards

as ―a ticket to a dream!‖

Steinhoff International’s High Street brand,

Poundland, has also come to the party with sponsor-

ship and promotion of ―The Hill‖ at Epsom,

traditionally seen as ―the atmosphere‖ of the track.

Investec Derby will be

richest race ever in UK

Douglas Macarthur: South African-owned runner.

There were two supplementary entries for the

showpiece on Monday - Permian, the Dante

winner, and Khalidi, who won the Cocked Hat

Stakes at Goodwood on Friday.

Their respective owners each paid £85,000 to add

them and a consequence the race will now carry

overall prize money of £1,625,000.

Khalidi is one of five possible runners in the race

for John Gosden, including Cracksman, the gen-

eral 4-1 favourite. Aidan O'Brien has seven

possibles to shuffle with Cliffs Of Moher, a best-

priced 9-2, popularly regarded as being his

principal contender.

If all 20 stand their ground, it will be the first

maximum-sized field for the Derby since Kris Kin

won in 2003. The biggest field since was when Sir

Percy defeated 17 rivals in 2006.

Meanwhile, trainer John Jenkins has defended his

owner's decision to run 1,000-1 outsider Diore Lia,

where she will be ridden by apprentice Gina

Mangan.

Owner-breeder Richard Aylward is keen to let his

filly take her chance to generate publicity and

funds for Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

"If I didn't run her, someone else would. The

owner is keen to run her and has set up a charity.

He's there for the big day," said Jenkins.

"I had a runner in the Derby a long time ago. That

was an outsider as well and it didn't finish last. Has

there ever been a 1,000-1 winner of the Derby?" -

from Racing UK, The SUN, BBC.

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Lerenawatch: Two at Lingfield

RACING UK describes Gavin Lerena’s first mount

at Lingfield this afternoon as ―one to keep an eye

on‖ – racing journalists’ lingo for “don’t know what

the hell to expect”. She’s a first-timer from the

Charles Hills yard and has been priced up at 6-1 in

Race 3, a Novices Plate over 1200m.

A half-sister to a steed that won once over 2400m,

Gigi is likely to find the 1200m dash too short.

Lerena’s only other ride comes in Race 7 on Irish-

bred Marittimo (Hills), eight of 14 at odds of 80-1 in

his latest outing, unplaced in three and perhaps

crying for more ground – 6 foot under!

But let’s hope Gav can improve on this one’s form

Plus, he needs to get to know his way around

Lingfield, a nice bread-and-butter track where good

judges of pace do very well.

Gavin Lerena rode work at trainer Amanda

Perrett and her husband Mark’s Coombelands

Training Centre last weekend. He has already

ridden two winners for the small West Sussex

stable. Perrett has trained 19 Gr1 winners since

1996.

Galileo Gold injured, retired

Galileo Gold, stud plans to be finalised.

GALILEO Gold, winner of last year's Qipco 2000

Guineas, has been retired after suffering an injury in

his run in the Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes at New-

bury this month.

The Hugo Palmer-trained colt excelled through the

early part of the 2016 season, claiming Classic glory

at Newmarket before finishing second in the Irish

equivalent at the Curragh and winning the St

James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

The son of Paco Boy was also second in the Sussex

Stakes at Glorious Goodwood, but could not add to

his tally in the Prix Jacques le Marois or Queen

Elizabeth II Stakes, and had to settle for fifth at

Newbury on his reappearance.

Galileo Gold ran in the colours of Al Shaqab, whose

racing manager Harry Herbert said: "It's a great

shame, real sadness all round. It's a soft-tissue injury

that meant we couldn't carry on with his career at

this stage of the season. It's very sad.

Herbert added: "He'll go to stud, but no decision has

been taken on that. It's still very much in the melting

pot.‖ - Racing UK.

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BUSH Hill Stud’s promising young sire and former Horse

Of The Year Irish Flame got off the mark as a sire when his

son Gizmo thrashed his rivals to break his maiden by three

and a quarter lengths on Monday.

Bred by Kerry Jack, the Dorrie Sham trained Gizmo, who

had been placed at his last two outings, is out of the

National Assembly mare Border Baby.

His sire Irish Flame was an outstanding racehorse, who was

South Africa’s Horse Of The Year in 2010. He won six

races locally, including the G1 SA Derby and G1 Daily

News 2000, and also won over 2200m in Britain.

Irish Flame, who was also second in the 2010 G1 Vodacom

Durban July, retired to stud having won from 1600-2450m

and he earned more than R2.7 million on the track.

One of 10 G1 winners sired by Horse Of The Year

Dynasty, Irish Flame was produced by Winter Oaks winner

Clock The Rock, who also produced Irish Flame’s Winter

Oaks winning own sister Irish Myth.

This is the same family as champion 2YO Smackeroo,

recent Derby runner up Rocketball, and graded winners

Flaming Corn, Meadow Magic and Vertical Takeoff.

Like outstanding sires Captain Al, Dynasty, and Jet Master,

Irish Flame was bred in South Africa. One of the first sons

of the great Dynasty to retire to stud, the triple Equus

Champion is well represented by six quality lots at the

2017 KZN Yearling Sale next month. - KZN Breeders.

*THE recently formed Turf Talk Syndicate already has

partners in the likes of Grant Knowles, Rod McCurdy and

Peter Naidoo—nour first runner will be an Irish Flame

filly. Shares available. Read more here.

Irish Flame at stud. (Candiese Marnewick)

Gizmo lights the Irish Flame

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Sc# Horse Mass MR Draw B A T Jockey Trainer

1 GIMME SIX 60.0 106 (102) 1 A A Delpech J Snaith

2 FINAL JUDGEMENT 60.0 103 ( 99) 8 A R Fourie G Kotzen

3 SAFE HARBOUR 60.0 101 ( 97) 4 A T ............... S Tarry

4 ORCHID ISLAND 60.0 99 ( 95) 7 A C Zackey M de Kock

5 SMILING BLUE EYES 60.0 99 ( 95) 3 A T S Khumalo S Tarry

6 BI POT 60.0 98 ( 94) 12 A C Maujean G Woodruff

7 EPONA 60.0 98 ( 94) 10 A A Marcus J Ramsden

8 WIND CHILL 60.0 98 ( 94) 14 A T B Fayd'Herbe J Soma

9 ORIENTAL OAK 60.0 97 ( 93) 6 A A Domeyer G Kotzen

10 LADY OF THE HOUSE 60.0 96 ( 92) 15 A P Strydom B Crawford

11 DRESS FOR SUCCESS 60.0 93 (89) 9 B A *D De Gouveia P Lafferty

12 AL DANZA 60.0 89 ( 85) 13 A K de Melo G Woodruff

13 THE HIGH LIFE 60.0 88 ( 84) 2 A S Veale D Drier

14 PARTY CRASHER 60.0 83 ( 79) 5 A M Byleveld G Kotzen

15 ONESIE 60.0 82 ( 78) 11 A W Kennedy Gareth van Zyl

WOOLAVINGTON 2000, R1-MILLION, 2000m Only top fillies win this one!

TOP class fillies Gimme Six, Final

Judgement, Safe Harbour, Orchid Island,

Epona and Wind Chill are among the

final acceptances for the Gr1

Woolavington Stakes over 2000m at

Greyville on Saturday 3 June.

Historically a good Durban July pointer,

this top contest for fillies has names like

Ipi Tombe (2002), Igugu (2011), Smart

Call (2015) and Bela Bela (2016) on its

honour roll, the former pair Durban July

winners after the Woolavington. -tt.

How to classify this young lad?

AN unusually marked, mostly white colt from the last crop of

California Chrome’s sire Lucky Pulpit was foaled on May 19 at

Stone Bridge Farm in New York in ongoing fulfillment of a

dream sparked in owner/breeder Gary Tolchin when he

attended races with his father as a youth.

The colt was delivered by the white mare, Passionforfashion,

who Tolchin acquired privately last year after a lengthy search

for a white Thoroughbred.

―I always wanted a white horse after I saw one at Aqueduct

with my father, Sam Tolchin, when I was growing up. My goal

is to continue breeding white horses,‖ Tolchin said, adding that

he intends to keep the newborn colt and eventually place him in

training for racing.

Rick Bailey, registrar of The Jockey Club, said it is too soon to

determine what colour the colt officially will be given when

registered. His colouring is similar, although a bit more

splashed with chestnut, to that of Passionforfashion’s dam, the

JOHN NORTON PHOTOGRAPHY

registered white Trust N Luck mare Turf

Club, who also had liberal chestnut

markings.

Tolchin, who is based in New Jersey and

is active in the New York and Kentucky

breeding programs, has owned or co-

owned many prominent runners, includ-

ing champion Big Brown, winner of the

Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.

The colt’s birth came three months after

Lucky Pulpit died of an apparent heart

attack when covering his first mare of the

2017 season . - from ctba.com.

Ladies Rule at Casterton!

STEPHANIE Thornton (left), Melinda

Julius (top), Lucinda Doodt and Linda

Meech rode the last four winners at

Casterton, Victoria, on Monday, com-

pleting an 8345—1 Quadruple. There

were no reported takers of the bet. - tt.