Title-chasing Yeni to score at Vaal
Jockey has a dream, will travel
Muzi Yeni has one objective this season — to win the riders’ championship for the first time. The 32-year-old is making a good fist of it as he’s in second place in the jockeys’ table and a week ago rode his 100th winner of the campaign. He trails Anton Marcus by eight winners, but, unlike the log leader, is prepared to travel to any racecourse in the country in search of winners. On Tuesday Yeni will be at the Vaal for their eight-race programme and he is sure to fancy his chance of winning the seventh race on Mike de Kock’s three-year-old filly, Greener Pastures. The filly is a daughter of Gimmethegreenlight whose son, National Park, ran out an impressive winner of last Saturday’s Gauteng Guineas at Turffontein. This will be the third time that Yeni has ridden Greener Pastures as he was in the saddle when the De Kock inmate won her maiden race at Turffontein in mid-December. On her latest outing, Greener Pastures finished a creditable second to Tamarina at the Vaal so goes into to...
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