Uncanny Similarities

Below are the last two Durban July winners, lest I remind all of us who couldn't or didn't manage to pick 28/1 and 16/1 respective winners...
Does anyone know if this owner/trainer back-to-back double has happened before in this prestigious race?

And then one 'hack' (A Jimmy Lithgow in the Sunday Times) points out what wasn't that obvious [to this observer at least] on that bad day for the average punter. Quote;
"Black jockey wins SA's biggest race for the first time on Nelson Mandela day at Greyville"

I should point out that the 'black jockey' part of that sentence was in fact very obvious to me and good luck to the young fella; he's a good jockey and I don't mind punting him, but NOT in this race!
The part that wasn't immediately obvious was the 'Nelson Mandela day'. They're doing so much to appease this old boy on his death bed, one has to wonder if the 'honest' folks in SA racing could actually go far enough to pull-off such a cunning stunt..?

POMODORO

Piere Strydom

S G Tarry

A

55.0

20

1

0.00

133.19

20/1

28/1

2012

 

HEAVY METAL

S'Manga Khumalo

S G Tarry

A

59.5

11

1

0.00

135.44

22/1

16/1

2013

 

Both owned by CJH van Niekerk!? (Who's he..?)

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