Super Saturday Insights
William Milkovitch has done his homework and provides his expert view of the card – he is going with the field in the Gold Cup and hoping Humpty Dumpty comes rolling home!
26th July 2018
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William Milkovitch has done his homework and provides his expert view of the card – he is going with the field in the Gold Cup and hoping Humpty Dumpty comes rolling home!
Primary funders hold the Power to alter the current disastrous path that racing is taking
It might be my name on the page as the breeder, but it was a team effort – I consider myself the lucky recipient
The problem with the system of handicapping is that it is a highly emotive and subjective issue and if you have three racing enthusiasts sitting around a table you will probably get four different opinions as to a horse’s merit rating
The pity is that we have nowhere to complain or anybody to go to in order to raise our concerns – so says a punter in the Sporting Post Mailbag
Skeleton perms, Drunk Uncle’s perms – whatever it takes to win the Place Accumulator on Vodacom Durban July Day!
Someone who moves their strike rate of breeding stakes-winners from 3% to 9%, while outperforming the breed average by a factor of three, is still getting it ‘wrong’ 91% of the time!
With trainers’ percentages and grooms’ pay grabbing headlines, we discuss big cheques and hot potatoes
Resolving the current issues needs a collective effort by all involved
One generally needs to wait until there’s at least one crop that has turned four in order to get a better view
“What was she thinking going that fast? I hope she gets a jolly good mothering from the connections when she returns to the parade ring,” screamed the GBI commentator
The classic has a long and proud history dating back to 1955 when it was run as the Cape of Good Hope Guineas
