Jack Milner: Aldo Domeyer went two up on Greg Cheyne by winning races 1, 2 and 8 at Flamingo Park today as the race for the final place in the South African team to ride in the International Jockey’s Challenge at Singapore on 25 September entered its final straight.
Going into the last two days of the 2017/18 racing season just one win separated Greg Cheyne and Aldo Domeyer on the jockeys’ log, and much is on the line for the two riders over these two days.
Domeyer, who started the day on 132 winners, is in action at Flamingo Park today while Cheyne, on 133, will be riding at Fairview tomorrow. Both have some good rides so following these guys could prove profitable.
Domeyer has seven rides at Flamingo and most of them are either at the top of the bookmakers’ boards or close to that position. He starts off with two rides for raiding trainer Paul Matchett and Liquid Gold in Race 1 has been price up at 13-10 with Now And Forever in Race 2 at 12-10.
Matchett must believe his pair will perform well on the Flamingo Park sand and Now And Forever, in particular, looks hard to beat in a very weak field. Two runs back he finished just 3.80 lengths behind Big Voice Jack and that form was franked at Turffontein yesterday when Ormond Ferraris’ charge won again.
In Races 6, 7 and 8 all three of Domeyer’s rides are No 4 on the card and all three look to have good winning chances. In particular, Warrior Stone in Race 6 went down a short head to Town Flyer last time but was hanging late and got touched off. He had an apprentice on board last time and stronger handling could make all the difference on this occasion.