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Vodacom Durban July

Vodacom Durban July

Date: 2012-07-11
Saturday's Vodacom Durban July has been described as a resounding success. The event is now in its 116th year and attracted more than 50,000 spectators.

Pomodoro roared into the Vodacom Durban July record books at Greyville getting up in the final stride to pip the outsider Smanjemanje, giving Pierre 'Striker' Strydom his third victory in the big race and the first for both trainer Sean Tarry and owner and breeder Chris van Niekerk.

Tarry and Van Niekerk buried the memory of their close second with Buy And Sell in 2007, thanks to a brilliant ride by Strydom, and Pomodoro, a three-year-old Jet Master colt, joined the likes of the top horses Dynasty and Flaming Rock to have won the race from the widest draw of all.