🇿🇦 South Africa 5h ago · Mike Moon

Durban July ducking and diving under way

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Durban July ducking and diving under way
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The usual “duck and dive” strategies ahead of the Hollywoodbets Durban July have begun.



Master trainer Mike de Kock predicted such “shenanigans” recently, with trainers trying to game the race’s handicapping system to get horses into the final line-up with handy galloping weights.



None of this involves shady practice, one hastens to say. It’s all a matter of tactics: when and where to run horses in preparatory races to avoid incurring weighty penalties &

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