Exciting Nadeem four-year-old Mujaarib (Nadeem - defied his lack of experience to win the Gr.2 Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile at Turffontein racetrack in Johannesburg on 3 November. A member of Nadeem’s oldest crop, the Mike De Kock trained entire, who is raced by his breeder Sheik Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, now heads to the Gr.1 Summer Cup, one of the feature races on the South African racing calendar.
Mujaarib is Nadeem’s sixth individual stakeswinner and his second at group two level. LA are still taking bookings this season to Nadeem whose service fee is $8,000 plus GST.
The LA bred mare Viadana (Towkay-Yeah Nah) recorded her fifth win from just 14 starts when scoring in the Carbine Club Trophy over 1600m at Ellerslie on Melbourne Cup Day. An unlucky fourth in listed company at the final run of her last campaign, the five-year-old mare showed courage to go with her undoubted class in her latest win, defying all challenges to run her down despite racing three-wide throughout.
Towkay looks to have two very promising three-year-olds in the form of the Tim and Margaret Carter trained Big Iron (Towkay-Plaything by Victory Dance) and the Fraser Auret trained Rohaise (Towkay-Volaisha by Volksraad). Big Iron dented a couple of big private reputations with his win in the Hills Haden Valuers Tauranga Three-Year-old Maiden 1200m at Gate Pa on Friday 2 November while the filly Rohaise won over the same distance at Wanganui the day before.
The LA owned Manu (Darci Brahma-Sporty Spice) won the Riverbank Engineering 3YO Maiden over 1200m at Otaki last Tuesday in just his second career run.
Real Dragon (Stratum-Maranello Miss) who recorded his third consecutive Hong Kong win and his fourth in total when taking out the Hong Kong Jockey Club 1650m at Happy Valley last Wednesday was sold from our draft at the 2008 Karaka Festival Sale.
