Saturday’s Gr2 Selangor Cup is a golden highway to the Cape Guineas and the classic beyond.
The winners and placed horses over the years have inevitably gone on to greater things and it could once again prove to be a curtain-raiser to hail a new generation equine hero.
King Of Pain keeps at it under Bernard Fayd’Herbe to win the Gr2 Selangor Cup
The maxim that ‘the best milers make the best sires’ is underscored by the Cape Guineas honour roll.
Bold Tropic wins the 1979 Cape Guineas in a nailbiter
The race has been the proving battleground for future sire power for decades and the Selangor Cup, and alternatively the Dingaans run in Johannesburg, is where we initially separate the wheat from the chaff.
A glance at the Selangor Cup honour roll over the past 13 years shows that ten of the top three placers were considered good enough to go on and take up careers as stallions. Some worked, some didn’t.
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