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The Conglomerate Heads Summer Cup Entries

Durban July winner The Conglomerate is one of the 48 nominations for the R2 million Summer Cup over 2000m at Turffontein on November 26.

He is one of four horses on the list trained by Cape-based Joey Ramsden.

The Conglomerate overcame the widest draw in the 18-horse Durban July field to beat Marinaresco in the country’s premier race.

Ramsden’s other entries are smart stayer Macduff, Coltrane and St Tropez, a close sixth behind Marinaresco in the Champions Cup last season.

Triple Crown winner Abashiri, unplaced inb the Durban July, has had a good break and trainer Mike Azzie will be keen for the Go Deputy gelding to set the record straight if he lines up in the Summer Cup.

Azzie also entered Amsterdam, Arctica and Deputy Jud.

Deputy Jud won the 2015 Supreme Cup and more recently finished second behind the Dean Kannemeyer-trained entry Cape Speed in the Track and Ball Derby at Scottsville.

Amsterdam is a lightly raced five-year-old who showed great promise finishing second to French Navy in the SA Classic last year but only ran twice as a four-year-old. Arctica has good form in much lesser company.

Champion trainer Sean Tarry has five entries but his ruling Horse Of The Year Legal Eagle is not one of them.

At this early stage his hopes of Summer Cup glory rest on Algoa Cup hero Stonehenge, Samurai Blade, who placed in both the SA Classic and SA Derby, G3 winner Liege, seven-year-old Cagiva and five-year-old Fort Meyers.

Trainer Johan Janse van Vuuren has entered New Predator and Negroamaro, one of the leading three-year-old fillies last season.

New Predator was not well ridden when third behind Legal Eagle in the Horse Chestnut Stakes last season and went on to win the Drill Hall Stakes and finish fourth in the 1600m Gold Challenge.


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