Sean Tarry has a chance of landing his first National Trainer’s Championship this season and the key meeting will be Super Saturday at Greyville this weekend where he has seven Grade 1 contestants, including three in the big one, the R1,25 million Gold Cup over 3200m.
Trainer Sean Tarry leads Canon Gold Cup winner Aslan. Photo: Gold Circle
He said it would be a “big deal” to win the Trainer’s title.
“It would be a massive achievement, but Mike de Kock is a master and will be hard to beat.”
Before yesterday’s meeting at The Vaal De Kock held a lead of R486 012.50 over Tarry.
Tarry won the Gold Cup for the first time two years ago with the five-year-old Silvano gelding Aslan.
Kolkata finished second in that race to give the yard a one-two and the latter has been priced up joint-second favourite for Saturday’s race at 8-1.
He carried 52kg as a three-year-old two years ago and this year carries 56kg.
Effectively, on the weight for age scale, that means he is only 0,5kg higher in the weights, so he is definitely a contender.
Furthermore he is drawn better in five than he was two years ago in 16.
He also has the masterful Piere Strydom in the irons.
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