Abashiri, winner of last season’s Triple Crown but unplaced in the Vodacom Durban July, has been priced up 10-1 second favourite for the R2m Sansui Summer Cup to be run at Turffontein on November 26. Bookies clearly have plenty of respect for this talented inmate of Michael Azzie’s stable whose July no-show was predicted by most pundits due to the three-year-old’s big weight. Interestingly, it is Abashiri’s former stablemate, Rabada, who heads the Summer Cup market at 7-1. Rabada, who races in the colours of leading owner Markus Jooste, was transferred from Azzie’s stable to that of Brett Crawford at the end of last season. The four-year-old is currently in trainer Mike de Kock’s stable and is expected to make his seasonal bow in the R1m Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile on November 5. Two of Sean Tarry’s powerful team, Liege and Samurai Blade, share third favouritism at 12-1. This looks an attractive price about Liege, considering Tarry’s comment after his recent win that "he’s...
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