A four-timer at last Saturday’s Emperors Palace Charity meeting at Turffontein has catapulted 34-year-old Johan Janse van Vuuren into third place in the national trainers log. Wins by Girl On The Run, She’s A Giver, Doosra and New Predator earned more than R1m in stake money to place Van Vuuren behind only Justin Snaith and Sean Tarry in the trainers’ table. It was New Predator who emerged the real star of the quartet with the Aussie import responding to the driving of jockey Gavin Lerena to beat home Saratoga Dancer and Deo Juvente in the R1m Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile. Van Vuuren is probably pinching himself to believe he has made such an outstanding start to the 2016/17 season. At the beginning of October, he teamed up with Lerena to win the R750,000 Grand Heritage Handicap with Irish Pride. The same horse took fourth place in the Charity Mile. It was also a memorable meeting for Lerena, with the 31-year-old riding all four legs of the jackpot. He will have been surpri...
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