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Mandla Moyo
A star studded field of seven marathon runners is set to battle stride for stride over a gruelling distance of 2 000m to determine the winner of the 2019 encounter of the Breeders Champion Cup Listed race this afternoon at Borrowdale Racecourse.
From this field focus will be on trainer Kirk Swanson and his team led by of jockey Wesley Marwing on board Heir Line. This runner comes into this race meeting with a career record of five wins and four place finishes from a total of fifteen appearances on the turf.
What is of interest about his runner is the fact that he is surrounded by a field yet to break the tape on a similar assignment the furthest they have gone being just 200m less.
On the other hand this bay gelding just a few months ago during the Merit rated 85 meeting cruised to victory in the process delivered an accolade to the yard of Kirk Swanson.
However, he is expected to face still competition from his stable mate Amsterdam who finished second on that particular day.
Trainer Swanson who is well known for conditioning horses for marathon races is nevertheless worried that Heir Line has not had enough game time coming into to this race.
As it stands horse racing fans could be in for a menu from the yard of Kirk Swanson if all goes well.
Can one of his runners take it away? Only when the stall gates open can this question be answered!
On the other hand, the field is not short of talent as there other capable horses that can spoil the day for Swanson and his team.
Horses to keep an eye on are knuckleball, Peggson, Simona and Roman Discent amongst the field on good day they have the ability to brew a shocker. For their hard work the winning connections is set to get $4 800 while the three placed runners to arrive home will each collect $1 600, $1 000 and $600 respectively
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