Highly regarded three-year-old colt ‘held back by politics’
Trainer Mike de Kock and Angus Gold, racing manager for Sheikh Hamdan, have put their heads together to make important decisions in the past — now they face another in determining the future of star three-year-old Hawwaam.
It appears the EU is again dragging its feet on the protocol issue despite SA doing everything possible to meet their every demand. De Kock knows all about winning races in the former British colony and it is exactly five years ago that he saddled owner Markus Jooste’s star performer Variety Club to win the HK$20m Hong Kong Mile.
Gavin Lerena, who partnered Hawwaam to victory last Saturday, will sport the same colours in Tuesday’s third race at the Vaal when the De Kock stable introduces the Captain Al colt Ehsaan. Another Tarry inmate, Forest Express, will also be at cramped odds in the seventh race, though the four-year-old will have to overcome a 19-week absence from the track.
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