Gareth van Zyl goes into the last KZN meeting of the season with a one win lead over Alyson Wright in the KZN Trainers Championship (Candiese Lenferna Photography)
The KZN Trainers Championship will be an enthralling sideshow in the Hollywoodbets Greyville poly meeting tomorrow with just one win separating the leader Gareth van Zyl and second-placed Alyson Wright.
In the event of a tie there will not be a count out and instead the two yards will share the title.
Gareth admitted last week, “Last year I did not pay attention to the championship, but this year I have made more of a deliberate effort and have brought some horses back from Cape Town and I have been a little more deliberate about it in the last two weeks.”
The effort showed as Gareth had a treble in two of the last three meetings in KZN to roar from five wins behind to a one win lead.
The Wrights have said it would be a title they would very much like to win, but were not overly confident of holding on when hitting the front two or three months ago, citing a lack of numbers.
In tomorrow’s meeting Gareth has nine runners; one runner in races two and three (15/10 favourite and 7/2), three runners in race four (7/2, 5/1 and 25/2), one runner in race six (5/1), two runners in race seven (both 14/1) and one runner in race eight (6/1).
The Wrights have six runners and one reserve; one runner (5/1) and one reserve in race five, one runner in race six (11/2), two runners in race seven (9/2 and 10/1) and two runners in race eight (6/1 and 10/1).
