NOORDHOEK FLYER - REPORT BACK
Trainer Dean Kannemeyer has reported from his Clairwood satellite base
that Noordhoek Flyer showed signs early on Sunday morning of being a
little shaken up after his disappointing effort in Saturday's Daily
News 2000. Kannemeyer said that the handsome chestnut was a little
jarred up after also having lost his near-fore shoe in the running of
the race. He indicated that the betting public should now exercise
caution as the KRA Guineas winner must be considered a doubtful
starter for the Vodacom Durban July.
" Having had the opportunity of reassessing the position and after
consulting with owner Lady Christene Laidlaw and jockey Karl Neisius,
we wish to advise that he must now be considered a doubtful starter
for the July. Karl reported that, unlike in the KRA Guineas, where
they went fast the whole way, the pace was slowed up during the
running of the Daily News 2000. He nevertheless had him in a good
position and after turning for home and having waited for a split, he
picked him up but felt that there was nothing there," said Kannemeyer.
Kannemeyer said that the obvious conclusion to be drawn is that
Noordhoek Flyer does not stay a genuine 2000m at this level, and at
this stage of his career and that he will thus not stay the 2200m of
the Vodacom Durban July. He said that a more realistic option would
possibly now be to go the route of the Champions Cup, an 1800m Grade 1
race, three weeks prior to the July. He would then put the son of
Pivotal away for the Cape's Sizzling Summer Season, where his targets
would be the L'Ormarins Queen's Plate and the J&B Met: " The Met is
run over the easy Kenilworth 2000m and he will then also be a little
older. I recall another good horse, Over The Air,trained by my Dad. He
was labelled early in his career as a horse who didn't stay further
than 1600m. He was beaten into second by Welcome Boy in the Cape
Guineas and by King Charles in the Cape Derby. He then won the Ascot
Summer Sprint run over 1200m in December of his four year old year and
ran unplaced in the Met. But he came out as a late four year old and
won the 1979 Rothmans July. And we have had others, so we know that
horses can develop stamina as they get older," he said.
Kannemeyer closed by saying that a final decision on Noordhoek Flyer's
short-term plans would in all likelihood be made within 48 hours. He
said that the racing public would be kept posted on all relevant
developments.
6 June 2010
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