Met Winner Could Be A Player In SA Champions Season
He was something of a surprise inclusion for many of us in the first entry list for the Hollywoodbets Gr1 Gold Challenge earlier this week
28th May 2024
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He was something of a surprise inclusion for many of us in the first entry list for the Hollywoodbets Gr1 Gold Challenge earlier this week
A nationally representative entry of 16 has been received for the 53rd renewal of the premier SA Champions Season weight- for-age mile
The outstanding exploits of Mrs Geriatrix put Clifton Stud back in the breeding headlines and now a horse bred at their KZN farm is third favourite for the Hollywoodbets Durban July
‘I think the guys were just a little bit asleep today’ – winning trainer Brett Crawford
Rebel’s Romance surged to a two-length win under jockey William Buick to provide Charlie Appleby’s first win in Hong Kong and become the first internationally trained horse to win the feature
Hollywoodbets Durban July favourite Green With Envy emptied his manger at his Summerveld base on Sunday morning, and bar some minor bruising after Saturday’s Gr1 Daily News 2000 thriller, is on track
The former Zimbabwe-based Down To Business, an out and out stayer, looks a live Gold Cup prospect as he finished with a wet sail down the centre of the track to claim his first South African victory
Nelson Mandela Bay Racing came in for stick from some exotic bet punters at Fairview on Friday when a jockey protest against worsening surface conditions, saw racing switched halfway through the card to the polytrack
Recent Gr2 World Sports Betting Guineas winner and ruling ante-post favourite for the R5-million Gr1 Hollywoodbets Durban July, Green With Envy heads the list of nine high class acceptors
Brett Crawford’s Gr2 SA Oaks winner Frances Ethel heads an eleven horse line-up, for the first Grade 1 contest of the SA Champions Season
Thunderstruck, notable for his good looks and soundness (before his injury), has all the credentials to be a top stallion and will stand the new season at Ridgemont in Robertson
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
