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Dancer's Daughter sidelined by injury By Michael Clower12.05PM 19 MAR 2009 SOUTH AFRICA'S champion racemare Dancer's Daughter has suffered a splint bone injury and will miss both the Horse Chestnut Stakes at Turffontein on April 4 and the Champions Challenge there three weeks later. Trainer Justin Snaith said on Thursday: "She knocked a splint bone on her near-fore when we worked her last Wednesday. We have been monitoring it ever since and we have now made a decision on her future plans. "The reason that it took us so long is that she is 100 per cent sound. But we don't want to take any chances with her and so the Johannesburg campaignis off. "We really only took her to Jo'burg to get her acclimatised and to do something with her in the Cape off-season, so everything there was a bonus. "We feel it's not worth pushing her through the rest of the Jo'burg season, then through the Durban season, before maybe having a go at the Breeder's Cup Distaff ![]() ![]() ![]() The British-bred mare dead-heated with Pocket Power in last year's Durban July and last month she defied the sceptics, who thought she would not be able to cope with Turffontein's 5,700 feet after being trained at sea level, by winning the Empress Club Stakes in impressive style. |
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![]() Looking for a replay of Warmonger.....
By all accounts she looks like a really good girl! |
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![]() Final Field: Gold Challenge
Sc# Horse Mass MR Draw B A T Jockey Trainer 1 POCKET POWER ![]() 2 OUR GIANT 58.0 115 (115) 6 B A A Marcus Charles Laird 3 BUY AND SELL 58.0 111 (111) 11 A T F Coetzee Sean Tarry 4 KAPIL 58.0 110 (110) 10 A P Strydom Stan Elley 5 IVORY TRAIL 58.0 109 (109) 2 B A A Fortune Joey Ramsden 6 BLUE TIGER 58.0 108 (108) 1 A S Randolph Mike Bass 7 THEREALSLIMSHADY 58.0 106 (106) 4 A T J Geroudis Alec Laird 8 BUSCADOR 58.0 105 (105) 12 A G Lerena Geoff Woodruff 9 LIKEITHOT 58.0 105 (105) 8 A M Byleveld Charles Laird 10 PIRATE'S GOLD 58.0 96 ( 96) 3 A S Cormack Glen Kotzen 11 LITTLEREDCORVETTE 58.0 86 ( 86) 5 A R Fourie Glen Puller 12 RIVER JETEZ 55.5 108 (108) 9 A K Neisius Mike Bass Couplings: (1,6,12) (2,9) |
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![]() Pocket Power wins.
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![]() he sounds quite pissed off.
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![]() * * * Still can't believe Court Masterpiece is back! Nice to see this one win... Saturday June 27 2009 Newmarket 15:25 - Result John Bovington Memorial Criterion Stakes (group 3) £65000 added, 3yo plus, 7f, Class 1, £36900 penalty, 9 ran Going: Good, Good to Soft in places Winning Time: 1m 24.83s 13:50 1 9 Imbongi ![]() prominent, led over 1f out, ridden out opened 4/1 £4000-£500 2 3 1¼ Huntdown (USA) 8-8 T E Durcan Saeed Suroor 3 9/1 held up, ridden and headway over 1f out, stayed on to take 2nd towards finish opened 8/1 touched 6/1 3 5 s.h Balthazaar's Gift (IRE) 9-3 I Mongan C G Cox 6 10/1 tracked leaders, ridden to chase winner entering final furlong, lost 2nd toward finish touched 8/1 4 4 2¾ Dream Eater (IRE) 9-3 t F Norton A M Balding 4 5/2 f pulled hard, tracked leader, ridden 2f out, stayed on same pace opened 4/1 £1750-£500 (x2) £5500-£2000 5 2 ½ Court Masterpiece 9-3 G Gibbons J J Quinn 9 6/1 held up, mid-division touched 11/2 6 6 1¼ Al Qasi (IRE) 9-3 R Mullen P W Chapple-Hyam 6 5/1 led, ridden and headed over 1f out, weakened inside final furlong opened 6/1 7 7 1½ Winker Watson 9-3 b1 A McCarthy P W Chapple-Hyam 4 8/1 dwelt, held up in rear, ridden and headway over 1f out, weakened inside final furlong opened 10/1 8 1 ½ Vitznau (IRE) 9-3 R Hughes R Hannon 5 12/1 always in rear opened 16/1 9 8 ¾ Express Wish 9-8 M Hills J Noseda 5 12/1 tracked leader, ridden and every chance entrance final 2f, weakened final furlong opened 11/1 Tote Win: £4.10 Tote Place: £1.80,£2.40,£2.50 Straight Forecast: £77.72 Exacta: £41.30 Trifecta: £154.70 Swingers:1&2:£5.90, 2&3:£10.40, 1&3:£7.00 |