Puerto Manzano won the Grade Betway Summer Cup at Turffontein on Saturday, starting at odds of 11-2.
Betway Summer Cup
Trained by Johan Janse van Vuuren, ridden by current leading jockey Keagan de Melo and owned by the Wernars family, the five-year-old Argentinian import defied predictions that he would not stay the 2000m of Joburg’s biggest horse race.
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Puerto Manzano surged up the middle of the track in the rush to the line, overhauling the leaders and scoring by half-a-length from Mike de Kock-trained Safe Passage (5-1), ridden by Muzi Yeni, with stablemate Aragosta (8-1) in third, then a further Van Vuuren pair, Divine Odyssey (125-1) and Litigation (16-1) in fourth and fifth.
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