Capetown Noir
He is a young horse and has his whole career ahead of him. The astute and time-tested Kannemeyer Racing policy of patience with classic horses is the route that will be followed with recent Gr1 CPYS Guineas winner Capetown Noir.
Lady Christine Laidlaw’s smashing son of Western Winter has been the talking horse of South African horseracing since annihilating his opposition in one of the country’s premier 3yo classics on 22 December.
Speculation has been rife that the Lammerskraal Stud-bred 3yo would be supplemented for the J&B Met after his brilliant win. Kannemeyer has one of the most enviable records in the Cape Guineas, having won the race an extraordinary eight times – and five times on his own account since taking over the reins from his famous father in 1999. Dean Kannemeyer said recently that a decision had been made.
“I can tell you that he will definitely go for the Derby on 2 February. Jehan Malherbe and myself had a meeting with Capetown Noir’s owner Lady Laidlaw and have reached a decision to go the route of facing his own age group for now. Horses only have one opportunity to win a Guineas and a Derby and he is only now starting to mature and fill out. He has his whole career ahead of him and he is an exceptionally smart horse,” he said.
Kannemeyer confirmed that his leading patron Lady Christine Laidlaw had said that she would support any programme that was in the fabulous colt’s best interests.
He added that his revamped website would shortly go live and said that racing enthusiasts could follow the colt’s progress on www.dkannemeyerracing.com
