Tyrone’s Gift For The Gap
Varsfontein stallion Master Of My Fate should see plenty of interest in his four lots at Sunday’s Cape Yearling Sale
10th March 2019
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Varsfontein stallion Master Of My Fate should see plenty of interest in his four lots at Sunday’s Cape Yearling Sale
‘If we don’t have a ticket we don’t have a hope of glory – or even earning…’
Turffontein-based trainer Tyrone Zackey travels into the SA Champions Season bull-ring on Saturday with a lightly raced son of A P Arrow
The Board considered the evidence put forward to it including the fact that Firocoxib is a Class 4 substance, that it was Mr Zackey’s first offence in respect of a prohibited substance, and that Mr Zackey was misled by the advice given to him on the excretion times for Firocoxib
There is no substitute for experience and Tyrone Zackey’s hardknocking 9yo Mirage Drive steps out for his 60th racetrack appearance at the Vaal today. The son of Kahal rattled the rafters at Turffontein recently when turning a grass gallop into an exotic bet knockout – and he could follow up
Veteran Gauteng trainer Tyrone Zackey reaffirmed the maxim ‘second sucks’ when his favourite equine son and public hero Smanjemanje, once tagged ‘the giantkiller’, was a winner of the 2012 Vodacom Durban July a stride before and a stride after the post
“We have a ticket, so we have a chance. She is talented and has done nothing wrong and we have a top jockey aboard. We can’t be quivering and worrying about the big yards and a bad draw. Let them worry about us rather!”
The Turffontein-based trainer can do little wrong at the moment. He has his sights set on the Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes, the Dingaans and the Sansui Summer Cup. Sort of puts some of his big talking colleagues’ performance into perspective, doesn’t it?
Francois who? That was the question on many observer’s lips in the immediate aftermath of a shock result in the Gr3 Graham Beck Stakes
Racing switches from the testing rigours of the sand, to the trickier tactical poser of the Turffontein inside track on Saturday. A Pinnacle Stakes heads an interesting ten race programme. Piere Strydom and Tyrone Zackey could be the combination to follow in the mainliner.
Besides serving as an important academic and information exercise for those serious about finding a winner for the Cape’s premier race to be run next Saturday, the gallops are really little more than a sedentary stretch of the legs for the big race participants and a pointer to physical well-being.
‘Fortune favours the bold, so kudos to Peter de Beyer for retaining Sylvie, a moderate race filly many breeders would have shunned as a broodmare’
A race steeped in history, previous winners include champion sires Jet Master and Gimmethegreenlight, as well as multiple Equus award winning champions Pocket Power, Do It Again, Jet Dark and Charles Dickens
