From Group One To Group None – Tobie Travels
Today he fields five runners in the Kimberley Nursery at Flamingo Park
22nd July 2019
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Today he fields five runners in the Kimberley Nursery at Flamingo Park
The Spies family have played a dominant role in the Kimberley Nursery since Indigofera opened their account in 2010
The pioneering spirit of trainer Corne Spies is legendary and admired in South African horseracing. He has conquered the remotest reaches of the country from his Vaal home base and is on the road to Kimberley again on Monday.
Trainer Tienie Prinsloo and leading apprentice Craig Zackey dominated the Monday afternoon meeting at Flamingo Park, when they also teamed up to produce the thrilling winner of the R100 000 Kimberley Nursery
Trainer Corne Spies is the undisputed king of the Kimberley Nursery. Today he bids for an extraordinary fifth win in the R100 000 sand baby feature in six years and plays a very decent three card hand
He came into the feature with a four-way coupling and punters went in boots and all for the Summerhill Stud bred Muhtafal gelding Topostwego, who had shown excellent turf feature collateral down in KZN
Trainer Corne Spies looks to have the Kimberley Nursery on a platter as Hawksworth stands out in an interesting race
Corne Spies saddles six of the fifteen carded acceptances for the R90 000 Kimberley Nursery but local man Cliffie Miller may still hold the trump card with his unbeaten Alado filly, Space Girl.
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
