In the many years that the famous brown and white colours of the Beck family have been competing in South Africa, has there ever been a more sensational winner than Lucky Lad in Saturday’s Gr1 Golden Horse Sprint?
Earning HK$9 million for the victory, Romantic Warrior – a Hong Kong International Sale graduate and BMW Hong Kong Derby winner – has now amassed HK$151 million in prizemoney!
Sean Tarry’s Hollywoodbets Durban July entry Lucky Lad put in a sensational late run under a breathtakingly stupendous Richard Fourie ride to grab top honours in the R1 million Gr1 Golden Horse Sprint
It was a third consecutive success in the prestigious 2yo male 1200m contest for Sean Tarry, after Thunderstruck (2022) and Lucky Lad last year
In a change of heart, the Wilgerbosdrift Bridget Oppenheimer Gr2 SA Oaks star Frances Ethel is now set to take her place in the Hollywoodbets Gr1 Durban July
The Varsfontein Stud team are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and underscored another great season as their home-bred Jet Master stallion Master Of My Fate’s daughter Splicethemainbrace made it a perfect five
The Steven Burridge-trained Ejaz will likely be one of the fancied runners in the SG$70,000 Class 3 race
The final leg of the jackpot is the eighth race, the Gr1 Golden Horse Sprint, which is off at 15h45
Are the resources allocated to this testing process going to achieve the goal it was intended to?
Some horses simply prefer racing on Sha Tin’s alternate surface and Adefill has once again confirmed that he undoubtedly falls into that category
Down To Business joined the stable of Peter Muscutt boasting an impressive formline of five wins and three places from as many starts in his adopted country
Finding the words ‘excitement’ and ‘insurance’ in the same sentence is as rare as breeding a Triple Crown winner!
As the clock ticks toward this year’s renewal of South Africa’s most iconic of races, the Hollywoodbets Durban July, it is only fitting that we return to the start of the new millennium and recall all the drama and splendour
It’s time for our racing regulators to accept and understand that they are part of the game, and not outside of it, above it, or bigger than it
