2020 KINGS & QUEENS REVIEW
Last night at Angle Park, Jabari gave trainer Neil Mann a much needed boost when he was able to take out the 2020 Kings And Queen s Final at headquarters. Neil had been suffering some ill health recently and the win of Jabari has certainly lifted his spirits.
The son of Fernando Bale and Flying Cheryl began well from box 5 to move forward and challenge for the early lead with Established for Cameron Butcher pushing through hard along the rails form box 2 as they reached the finishing post on the first occasion. Back in third was the Gavin Harris trained Springvale Shine closely followed by Sweet Rose (box 1) for Nicole Price and race favourite Blister (box 4) for Chris Jaensch who was only fairly away.
Entering the back straight and Established and Jabari had raced clear of their rivals by about 4 lengths with Springvale Shine moving to a clear third while Spring Burner for Greg Board made good ground out wide into fourth. Jabari put his paw to the floor down the back straight and ran to the front opening up a good break from Established who was battling on well. Both Springvale Shine and Spring Burner continued to run home well. Prior to running for home Jabari was in full flight in the lead with Established coming under pressure from Springvale Shine who ran to second. As they approached the finish line Jabari was hanging on from a fast finishing Springvale Shine to win by 1 length. Spring Burner charged home late into third a further 2.5 lengths away just ahead of Established. Jabari ran a solid 30.30 for the 515m with splits of 4.43 and 16.97.
Jabari is owned by Dwayne Jiggins and Teresa Mann and is locally bred by Leon Cummins. He has now won 11 races with 11 placings from 30 starts with career prizemoney just over $20,000. Steve Coates who was in charge of Jabari advised that Neil should be back at the races very soon and it would be a great thrill for him.
Greyhound Racing SA introduced the Kings and Queens Feature series four years ago in support of those greyhounds affected by the change to the GCA Age Restricted Classics from 30 months back down to 27 months for this year upcoming SA Oaks and SA Derby series to be run next Thursday night. Based around the support of this series in recent years it is now a permanent fixture on the feature race calendar.