Craig Zackey secured another double when winning the last race on the Joe Soma-trained Greenlight Racer (JC Photos)
Craig Zackey extended his lead in the national championship with a double at the Vaal Classic track today (Thursday) that took him to 29 wins for the season , achieved at a strike rate of 15.85%.
He is now seven clear of Serino Moodley, who is on 22 wins.
Calvin Habib had a winner today which saw him join Richard Fourie in third place on 20 wins, one clear of Muzi Yeni in fifth place.
The highest rated race at the Vaal Classic meeting was a MR 92 Handicap for fillies and mares over 1600m and it saw another win for the progressive Roy Magner-trained Accept Cookies, who was 3,5kg better off with Kisshoten (Erupt) for a 2,90 length beating and under Gavin Lerena she duly reversed the form beating Kisshoten this time by 1,50 lengths. The Varsfontein Stud homebred four-year-old Gimmethegreenlight filly ran off an 86 merit rating and received 5kg from the 95-rated five-year-old Kisshoten. Both of them could progress further and possibly pick up some black type.
The first race saw the Fabian Habib-trained first-timer Nou Praat Jy backed from 6/1 to 18/10 and the Rafeef colt won by 1,25 lengths under a hard ride from Jason Gates after being a bit slowly way.
