Deepo (Gavin Smith) looks ready to bounce back to her best in Friday’s race meeting at Arlington in Port Elizabeth.
Last season she was the champion two-year-old filly in the Eastern Cape but lost her form after three victories in a row.
In her last start she was unlucky not to win and looks ready for a big run in the Breeders Guineas Plate for three-year-old fillies over 1 400m.
Valor Red, Tudor Star and Break of Dawn look like Deepo’s dangers in the main race.
It is good news that jockey Barend Vlooh will be riding at the meeting after a terrible fall on Monday at the end of race seven at Fairview. He said he was still a bit sore but ready to go again.
The horse that he was riding, Western Star, clipped heels with the winner of the race, Royal Terrace, who was ridden by Karis Teetan, and went down with Vlooh.
“I went to hospital and the scans showed no bones were broken. My neck and right hand were very sore but I rode some work (on Wednesday) and will ride at Arlington,” said Vlooh.
Meanwhile, the Eastern Cape horse racing fraternity was shocked by the news of the death of Reeva Steenkamp who was reportedly accidentally shot by boyfriend Oscar Pistorius, an Olympian and Paralympian, on Thursday morning.
She had many friends in the sport in PE and our sincerest condolences go out to her parents, Uncle Barry and June, well-known to everyone involved in PE racing. Barry retired recently as a trainer.
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