Piere Strydom rode a milestone 5000th career winner on Act Of War in the Grade 2 Selangor Cup eight years ago on November 22, 2014.
On Saturday at the same Hollywoodbets Kenilworth venue he rides in the same race and a win on the Gareth van Zyl-trained Money Heist will bring him his milestone 5,500th win, unless he wins his only booked ride before that.
The 5,500 figure is particularly significant because he stated before his comeback from injury he would retire as soon as he had reached that mark.
He is actually going to stay on a touch longer because of a couple of commitments.
He revealed recently he had been offered the ride on the progressive Money Heist for the Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas, provided he qualifies.
This horse was narrowly defeated last time out over 1600m at Hollywoodbets Greyville when running in a Graduation Plate and the horse who won was a four-year-old rated only 80.
However, it wasn’t a bad effort when considering Money Heist came from way back, was green and Striker was also carrying 2,5kg overweight, meaning he had to give the four-year-old 2,5kg.
Strydom also said the colt had given him a good feel.
He said at the time he had also been offered the ride on the Fanie Bronkhorst-trained filly Typeset (Futura) in the WSB R7,5 million Gold Rush.
