Trainer Comments Flying Championship

JJ will be cruising home,you guys forget that he had a merit rating of over 120,once upon a time.

i watched JJ work this morning with lucky and it was great to see the champ in action,thanks lucky for letting me be there ,bring him home lucky



this is me with JJ this morning at milnerton

only because im a cape boy ill go waw.won this race last year and with honest karl up, has best jock in country on top.lol.hv 2 admit i do fear jj coz he has proven international class on his side. filly definately 3rd or 4th.

Re Savasp i see you reunited with your buddy Lucky,please just dont feed him pies and koulouria,untill after the races on Saturday.Bravo levendi.

looks like he only eats and drinks beer,long are the days he looked like a jockey,but he is what he is a good guy ,he will all ways be my boet even if JJ was not around,

You have to say that races with a wow factor like this one are 1 in 10,000

Horses who know how to win taking each other on........Absolutely EPIC!

My only regret will be that it's not being run on Met day and will not see it live, have a feeling it will be a race that will be in the memory banks " do you remember the day that JJ, VDR and WAW had a triple dead heat at Kenilworth" .......lol

On the other hand if u don't fancy the top 3 Interbet are offering 125/1 on the other 3 runners

David Thiselton




A South Easter wind starting at 31 km per hour at midday and rising to 37 km per hour by 18h00 has been forecast on Saturday at Kenilworth which could have an effect on the outcome of the Grade 1 Betting World Cape Flying, which features a titanic clash between three of the world’s best sprinters, J J The Jet Plane, Val De Ra and What A Winter.



Some pundits say that the 1000m race will now be more like a 1200m event, especially considering the Kenilworth sprint course is the toughest in the country.



This should play into the hands of the four-year-old What A Winter, an exceptional 1200m horse, but who has the versatility to have won the Cape Flying last season as well as the Grade 2 Selangor Cup over 1600m.



J J The Jet Plane, now seven-years-old, is also best suited to 1200m, although he has won the Grade 1 Computaform Sprint over the very quick 1000m Turffontein course and also won the Grade 3 Graham Beck Stakes over the tough Turffontein 1400m as a young three-year-old.



J J returns from a layoff due to a core lesion of a lower suspensory ligament and only the race will tell whether this has blunted his exceptional cruising speed, from which he still manages to find another turn of foot in the closing stages of his races.



Val De Ra, whose only defeat in eleven starts came in the Grade 1 SA Fillies Sprint over 1200m when she was three-years-old, won over 1300m as a two-year-old and won the SA Fillies Sprint last year.



However, her most famous win to date, in the Computaform Sprint, illustrated that her chief weapon is her tremendous gatespeed and early pace which is followed by another kick when challenged in the latter stages.



The 1000m distance is therefore the five-year-old mare’s optimum trip as it gives the opposition less time to make up the leeway.



However, her trainer Dennis Drier said earlier this week that he would not be concerned if a South Easter was blowing.



She did illustrate in the SA Fillies Championship last year that she can use her extremely high natural cruising speed to equal effect and still find a response when asked for extra over a tough 1200m race, and this might have been the image he had in mind when saying that.

JJ ran 3 wide in the Cathay Pacific and still opened a can of whupass on Rocket Man and Sacred Kingdom.

That little horse just doesn't know how to quit. He'll slaughter 'em or die trying.

JJ all the way !!

Winzip there's no such a thing as honest karl its rouge karl he's the best in pulling horses

You guys are probably going to laugh at me now, but here is something to think about. The 100/1 shot in the race has only been beaten ONCE over the Kenilworth 1000m, and that was in his first start in a maiden juvenile. Not saying he is going to win, I think VDR will be too quick for WAW & JJ over the 1000m. The forecast is for a strong headwind though.....

Maybe not a 3 horse race ???