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Kamchatka ready to erupt
February 04, 2026
|The Mercury
HERE is nothing anti-climatic about the card at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Wednesday.
Trainer Andre Nel runs KAMCHATKA in Race 8 - THE CLAPHAM STAKES at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth today.
(Picture: Race Coast/Chase Liebenberg)
Often the calm after the storm with so many big names going around just a few days earlier, there is nothing shallow about the 10-race programme.The card is headed by the Non Black-Type Clapham Stakes over 1600m which is race 8. Kamchatka plummets in class after tasting high-race stakes in her last two efforts. Despite top weight of 60kg, she could take victory under Serino Moodley who is in town for Andre Nel.
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