Up Where He Belongs
Explosive performance from Trip To Heaven as he takes a step closer to Gr1 Cape Flying Championship glory
14th January 2017
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Explosive performance from Trip To Heaven as he takes a step closer to Gr1 Cape Flying Championship glory
“Trip To Heaven got a hefty penalty and went from a 109 to 115 after his Gr2 Joburg Spring Challenge win. So I decided to bypass the Charity Mile. My short-term plan is to run him in the Gr2 Merchants on Summer Cup Day and then look at a race like the Horse Chestnut in the medium term.”
Trip To Heaven was having only his eighth career outing in a field of seasoned campaigners and Tarry was quick to urge the handicapper to look at the performance in context – and against the background of some of his charge’s opponents possibly needing the outing
The Gr2 Diadem Stakes looked to be one of the sprint races of the year, but lost some lustre when Trip To Heaven was a forced scratching
Sean Tarry produces an exciting 3yo every weekend at the moment. He has another really promising sort in the Trippi colt Trip To Heaven who slammed his elders to scorch to his first stakes win on Summer Cup day
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
