Pocket Power - the captain
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Pocket Power - the captain
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Champion Season – For racing enthusiasts, this is what we’ve all been waiting for, South African racing at its best. The Mike Bass cavalry have settled in well and we are looking forward to this season with great anticipation. This year Mike trains a squad of 28. The captain - Pocket Power.
Ironically this year, Pocket Power has been stabled in Jet Master’s old box. Coincidently, I might add. We have been moved from our usual Clairwood stabling facility, and this year found ourselves in Geoff Woodruffs old barns. Pocket Power has found his way into the very box that stabled his great Sire. Fate?, destiny?, who knows? What I can tell you is that he is doing just fine. His mission will be the Durban July, as we know, he has a certain score to settle!
His programme has recently been changed. Previously his opening outing in KZN was going to be in the Drill Hall, but after a long rest this would always have been very early for him and was never going to suit his programme. Gold Circle have just included an additional race on the 24th of may, an ordinary pinnacle stakes over 1450m aimed at horses with higher merit ratings. However, the problem may be to fill up the field but it works out well falling just 3 weeks before the Gold Challenge.
After an early Cape Winter this year his coat has grown wintery very quickly, and he along with a few others have been clipped.
Pocket Power goes online
The world’s most successful website interface is facebook, and earlier this month a fan club was set up for Pocket Power which is administered by Mike bass Racing.com and Interbet. If you are a facebook member you can view all his races online, join the forum and follow him through the season. In the first two weeks he has 100 members. Please come and join us at Pocket Power – Mike Bass.
Below is an excerpt we created and uploaded on Pocket Powers statistics.
It’s pretty interesting:
Race Record:
Runs: 28
Wins: 14
Places 11
Earnings to date: R7 709 790 (15 April 2009)
Group 1 wins: 7
Group 1 places: 3
Graded Wins: 12
Graded Places: 9
Highlights:
J&B Met Champion (2007, 2008, 2009)
Queens Plate Champion (2007, 2008, 2009)
Durban July Champion (2008)
Green Point Stakes Champion (2007, 2008)
Winter Triple Crown Champion (2006)
Interesting facts:
World Ranking: 24 (lowest is 14)
Pocket Power won his first three graded races consecutively over three separate distances securing the Winter Triple Crown at Kenilworth.
The only Horse in History to win 2 Queens Plate and two J&B Mets was Politician- Pocket Power has won 3 Queens Plates and Three J&B Mets consecutively.
Pocket Power dead heated with Dancers Daughter in the 2008 Durban July. There has only ever been 1 other dead heat in 1967, when Sea Cottage dead heated with Jollify.
Bernard Fayd’Herbe has ridden Pocket Power to 5 of his 7 group 1 wins. (Jeff Lloyd rode the other two 2)
Since Interbet joined MBR as a sponsor he has won 2 group 1’s (J&B Met and QP) and finished second in the group 2 Diadem Stakes
Pocket Power has only ever finished out of the placing’s on 3 occasions, his maiden outing being 1 of them.
Pocket Power is unbeaten from 1600m and further at Kenilworth from 13 starts.
The furthest he was ever been beaten by, in any race, was in his second outing over 1200m, where he lost to Drifting Water by 4.75 lengths.
The furthest he has ever won by is 3.25 lengths beating Majestic Sun in his first ever graded race over 1600m.
Pocket Power has never won a sprint – But finished second in 4 group 2 sprints, and only on two occasions, did he finish out of the money finishing no worse than 5th.
Pocket Power has carried top weight in all but 2 of his 28 starts.
Pocket Power has never left a grain of feed in his trough.
He has only been led into the winners’ enclosure once from his 28 starts. (He has an aversion to the green carpeted winners enclosure)
Trainer Mike Bass has won the WP Trainers Championship on 6 occasions and currently leads the 2009 season (1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008)
Mike Bass has won the J&B Met and the Durban July 7 times from the 17 runnings. That’s a 42% winning average.– Bunter Barlow (Met 2001), Pocket Power (2006-2009), Trademark (July 2001), Dunford (July 2005 and Pocket Power (July 2008)
Had Pocket Power achieved the same racing statistics in the USA his average earnings are estimated to be more than R60 million.
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Champion Season – For racing enthusiasts, this is what we’ve all been waiting for, South African racing at its best. The Mike Bass cavalry have settled in well and we are looking forward to this season with great anticipation. This year Mike trains a squad of 28. The captain - Pocket Power.
Ironically this year, Pocket Power has been stabled in Jet Master’s old box. Coincidently, I might add. We have been moved from our usual Clairwood stabling facility, and this year found ourselves in Geoff Woodruffs old barns. Pocket Power has found his way into the very box that stabled his great Sire. Fate?, destiny?, who knows? What I can tell you is that he is doing just fine. His mission will be the Durban July, as we know, he has a certain score to settle!
His programme has recently been changed. Previously his opening outing in KZN was going to be in the Drill Hall, but after a long rest this would always have been very early for him and was never going to suit his programme. Gold Circle have just included an additional race on the 24th of may, an ordinary pinnacle stakes over 1450m aimed at horses with higher merit ratings. However, the problem may be to fill up the field but it works out well falling just 3 weeks before the Gold Challenge.
After an early Cape Winter this year his coat has grown wintery very quickly, and he along with a few others have been clipped.
Pocket Power goes online
The world’s most successful website interface is facebook, and earlier this month a fan club was set up for Pocket Power which is administered by Mike bass Racing.com and Interbet. If you are a facebook member you can view all his races online, join the forum and follow him through the season. In the first two weeks he has 100 members. Please come and join us at Pocket Power – Mike Bass.
Below is an excerpt we created and uploaded on Pocket Powers statistics.
It’s pretty interesting:
Race Record:
Runs: 28
Wins: 14
Places 11
Earnings to date: R7 709 790 (15 April 2009)
Group 1 wins: 7
Group 1 places: 3
Graded Wins: 12
Graded Places: 9
Highlights:
J&B Met Champion (2007, 2008, 2009)
Queens Plate Champion (2007, 2008, 2009)
Durban July Champion (2008)
Green Point Stakes Champion (2007, 2008)
Winter Triple Crown Champion (2006)
Interesting facts:
World Ranking: 24 (lowest is 14)
Pocket Power won his first three graded races consecutively over three separate distances securing the Winter Triple Crown at Kenilworth.
The only Horse in History to win 2 Queens Plate and two J&B Mets was Politician- Pocket Power has won 3 Queens Plates and Three J&B Mets consecutively.
Pocket Power dead heated with Dancers Daughter in the 2008 Durban July. There has only ever been 1 other dead heat in 1967, when Sea Cottage dead heated with Jollify.
Bernard Fayd’Herbe has ridden Pocket Power to 5 of his 7 group 1 wins. (Jeff Lloyd rode the other two 2)
Since Interbet joined MBR as a sponsor he has won 2 group 1’s (J&B Met and QP) and finished second in the group 2 Diadem Stakes
Pocket Power has only ever finished out of the placing’s on 3 occasions, his maiden outing being 1 of them.
Pocket Power is unbeaten from 1600m and further at Kenilworth from 13 starts.
The furthest he was ever been beaten by, in any race, was in his second outing over 1200m, where he lost to Drifting Water by 4.75 lengths.
The furthest he has ever won by is 3.25 lengths beating Majestic Sun in his first ever graded race over 1600m.
Pocket Power has never won a sprint – But finished second in 4 group 2 sprints, and only on two occasions, did he finish out of the money finishing no worse than 5th.
Pocket Power has carried top weight in all but 2 of his 28 starts.
Pocket Power has never left a grain of feed in his trough.
He has only been led into the winners’ enclosure once from his 28 starts. (He has an aversion to the green carpeted winners enclosure)
Trainer Mike Bass has won the WP Trainers Championship on 6 occasions and currently leads the 2009 season (1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008)
Mike Bass has won the J&B Met and the Durban July 7 times from the 17 runnings. That’s a 42% winning average.– Bunter Barlow (Met 2001), Pocket Power (2006-2009), Trademark (July 2001), Dunford (July 2005 and Pocket Power (July 2008)
Had Pocket Power achieved the same racing statistics in the USA his average earnings are estimated to be more than R60 million.
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