J&B Met Weights – if the race was run today
Calculated weights for the Met, if the race was run this week.
6th December 2011
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Calculated weights for the Met, if the race was run this week.
The Princess reigns! Glen Kotzen’s star Victory Moon filly Princess Victoria turned chamber maid at Kenilworth on 3 December when she swept the floor with
ROBYN LOUW: Why do we race horses. For fun, for money or for the glory of the game? There are as many different motivations as there are people and horses.
LANCE BENSON: Derek Brugmann’s swipe at the lack of promotional and marketing effort of what was a high-class Kenilworth race-meeting on Sunday will hopefully have the effect of girding the lazy loins into action.
SARAH WHITELAW: John Kramer is one of the best known and well respected judges of yearlings in South Africa. He has been inspecting and selecting yearlings for the country’s sales for over 20 years.
The Graded Stakes committee have conceded that the average quality of the Ready To Run Cup field stands up well to a Group 2
SARAH WHITELAW: It is difficult to justify how someone can spend 850,000 euros on a foal by an unproven stallion
LANCE BENSON: Racing needs characters and real guys that we can identify with. Maybe Phumelela should consider giving Tarry and Azzie their own show
Keeneland’s Tom Thornbury shares his experiences at South Africa’s Cape Premier Sale and looks ahead to the 2012 auction in January
His story was one meant for a storybook and will be told for many years as one of racing folklore, as legend.
LANCE BENSON: Seemingly always on the back foot, but not quite scoring the boundaries. That’s the battered child of horseracing in any average week. The latest issue of Finweek magazine calls it the Sport Of Rogues, while Gold Circle Racing Director Graeme Hawkins has acknowledged that pleasing all of the people all of the time is ‘impossible.’
The South African bred former Equus Champion Sprinter Isivunguvungu made a terrific winning debut on US soil for trainer Graham Motion and confirmed his Prevagen $1million Gr1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint aspirations
The evergreen hero travelled to Vereeniging on Thursday for a 100% strike rate from two rides that saw him bring up his recordbreaking 5555th winner milestone
‘The Breeders Cup Distaff is definitely still on the cards and Beach Bomb will probably have one more race before then’ – Gaynor Rupert
It will be good news for South African racing fans that, despite a number of offers from abroad, Gerald and Karen Kalil’s multiple champion Quid Pro Quo will continue her 3yo season on African soil
