Strydom to prove there is nothing wrong with his vision

Singer Joni Mitchell wrote a song called Big Yellow Taxi in the 1960s which has repeated line that goes "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone".

- Jack Milner

That could apply to jockey Piere Strydom who will be riding at his final Turffontein meeting tomorrow.

For months he has been struggling to get rides, but the minute he announced his retirement, everybody wants him.

Strydom has five rides on the eight-race card on the Standside track in which the races after named after him and his successes over the years, and many of them have winning chances.

Perhaps the best of his rides could be Twentytwentyvision in Race 4, a MR 84 Handicap over 1000m.