HORSE RACING:
Paul Peter stable eyes continuing run of top form
Gauteng trainer Paul Peter, who ended the season with a bang at Greyville at the weekend, will be hoping to start the new campaign with more success at Turffontein on Wednesday.Peter saddled two runners at the Champions Cup meeting and won with both. Maximizer notched the fifth win of his career by taking the 1,600m Darley Arabian.Stablemate Fort Ember came up trumps in the grade2 Gold Bracelet over 2,000m.Bred at Maine Chance Farms, Maximizer, a son of Querari, has hardly put a foot wrong for the Hyperpaint Syndicate. Fort Ember outsmarted Durban July fourth Nightingale.Fort Ember was a R60,000 buy from Arc-En-Ciel Stud and Saturday’s win took her earnings to more than R770,000.On Sunday, Peter’s filly Folk Dance ran a creditable third in the Thekwini Stakes.At an eight-race card at Turffontein on Wednesday Peter has a chance of landing a double with Moss Gas (second race) and Arabian Beat in the third.Weichong Marwing will be on a high following his Gold Cup triumph on Hermoso Mun...
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