Toughest task of bargain buy Cirillo’s career
Woodruff’s two older runners handily weighted in R400,000 sprint race
Former champion trainer Geoff Woodruff has two lightly weighted runners that could trouble the favourite Cirillo in Saturday’s R400,000 Senor Santa Stakes at Turffontein. Cirillo has proved a wonderful bargain buy for owner Chris van Niekerk and the three-year-old will take his earnings to more than R4.5m if successful on Saturday. The colt cost R300,000 but Van Niekerk deserves the reward as he has ploughed a vast amount of money into the sport. However, trainer Sean Tarry and top jockey, Anton Marcus, will both be aware this is the toughest task of Cirillo’s career because he is giving weight to older horses. Both of Woodruff’s runners, Billy Silver and Schippers, will receive four and four and a 0.5kg from Cirillo. In a weight-for-age event, they would be giving the Tarry inmate 2.5kg. Billy Silver is quoted at 16-1 in early betting and those look attractive each-way odds as the Silvano gelding was beaten by top sprinter Pinnacle Peak last time out. Schippers, a daughter of Var, ...
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