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Re: piss poor july field anticipated
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Change of plans for Eyes Wide Open
PUBLISHED: APRIL 5, 2018
After the colt won the Investec Cape Derby Glen Kotzen immediately started thinking in terms of the July, so following in the footsteps of Big City Life…
Eyes Wide Open, 6-1 favourite for the Vodacom Durban July with those firms already betting on the country’s most famous race, is no longer under consideration for the Greyville showpiece.
After the colt won the Investec Cape Derby Glen Kotzen immediately started thinking in terms of the July, so following in the footsteps of Big City Life with whom he completed the double in 2009, but further reflection has caused him to change plans.
Eyes Wide Open (Candiese Marnewick)
Kotzen explained: “He won’t now be running in the July because of the weights – he is almost the top-weighted three-year-old in the country. He leaves for Durban in about two weeks but I am not sure yet when he will start. I will see how he goes and then decide.”
Talented stable companion Gold Standard – second in last season’s Cape Guineas and fourth in the Met – is already in Durban.
Kotzen said: “He was just not completely firing so we sent him back to Drakenstein for a nice break. He will probably go straight for the Rising Sun Gold Challenge on June 9.”
Kasimir, beaten only by Dutch Philip in the CTS 1200 after three wins off the reel, steps up to 1 400m for the first time in the Byerley Turk at Greyville on Sunday and connections expect him to appreciate the extra.
Jonathan Snaith said: “We kept him to 1 000m and 1 200m because we always had the CTS race in mind for him but his correct trip is 1 400m to a mile.”
By Michael Clower
PUBLISHED: APRIL 5, 2018
After the colt won the Investec Cape Derby Glen Kotzen immediately started thinking in terms of the July, so following in the footsteps of Big City Life…
Eyes Wide Open, 6-1 favourite for the Vodacom Durban July with those firms already betting on the country’s most famous race, is no longer under consideration for the Greyville showpiece.
After the colt won the Investec Cape Derby Glen Kotzen immediately started thinking in terms of the July, so following in the footsteps of Big City Life with whom he completed the double in 2009, but further reflection has caused him to change plans.
Eyes Wide Open (Candiese Marnewick)
Kotzen explained: “He won’t now be running in the July because of the weights – he is almost the top-weighted three-year-old in the country. He leaves for Durban in about two weeks but I am not sure yet when he will start. I will see how he goes and then decide.”
Talented stable companion Gold Standard – second in last season’s Cape Guineas and fourth in the Met – is already in Durban.
Kotzen said: “He was just not completely firing so we sent him back to Drakenstein for a nice break. He will probably go straight for the Rising Sun Gold Challenge on June 9.”
Kasimir, beaten only by Dutch Philip in the CTS 1200 after three wins off the reel, steps up to 1 400m for the first time in the Byerley Turk at Greyville on Sunday and connections expect him to appreciate the extra.
Jonathan Snaith said: “We kept him to 1 000m and 1 200m because we always had the CTS race in mind for him but his correct trip is 1 400m to a mile.”
By Michael Clower
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