Trainer Sean Tarry with Roman Agent and jockey Grant Van Niekerk during the L’Ormarins King’s Plate at Kenilworth racecourse earlier this year. Picture: Yolanda Saayman/Gallo Imageson 6 April became somewhat clearer when final declarations were made this week.
Connections in two or three minds about the races in which to run their horses had to make decisions – and some fateful ones were made in the Randjesfontein yards ofMulti-champion trainer De Kock opted to saddle unbeaten filly Gimme A Nother for the Grade 1 1600m Empress Club Stakes and not the Grade 2 SA Oaks – thereby forfeiting an odds-on chance of clinching the 2024 Triple Crown and its R1-million bonus prize.
Also, De Kock committed his fast-improving colt Marauding Horde to the 2450m SA Derby, despite expressing misgivings about the official handicappers’ tendency to punish three-year-old Grade 1 outperformers for their precocity. The son of Vercingetorix is quoted at 4-1 by bookmakers, below 22-10 favourite Purple Pitcher.
Tarry had his brilliant filly Mrs Geriatrix entered in three races on Derby Day, but in the end picked the Empress Club – showing some chutzpah in taking on 1-4 hotshot Gimme A Nother.The much-discussed Sandringham Summit goes in the Grade 2 Hawaii Stakes rather than the Grade 1 Premier’s Champion Challenge.
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