One eye Is ‘King’

ONE-EYED horses are barred from racing in Australia but they often hold their own in this country as the one-eyed

- ANDREW HARRISON

Winter Games made good use of his light weight and stayed on gamely to holdoff a late-charging favourite Gladatorian to land the Listed Kings Cup, the race the harbinger of South Africa’s Champions Season. Jumping from his inside gate, Mathew Thackeray had no hesitation in taking Mike Miller’s runner to the front and given the right-handed nature of KZN courses, Winter Games had his good eye on the rail.

Thackeray

But Thackeray was not taking any prisoners and went lengths clear going up the hill with his opposition seeming confident that he had pressed the accelerator a little too early.