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1994 Gr1 Rothmans July - SPACE WALK - finish

Sands Of Time – June 1994

SA has 2nd favourite in Epsom Derby, Basil Marcus extends HK jockey championship lead, Imperial Despatch wins the Daily News and a new race record for Taban in the Chairman’s Stakes. Pas De Quoi thwarts Flaming Rock’s designs on a 4th Schweppes title and Genevieve Michel becomes first SA-trained lady jockey. Surfing Home shows his July mettle in the Mainstay Trial, while Eli’s Truth is deemed not up to scratch. Rain, jockey protests and a huge who-ha in the July, as the race is awarded to Space Walk and Odessa wins the Breeders’ Championship

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Sands Of Time – May 1994

SA apprentice makes waves in Macau, Strydom suspended and Rob de Kock joins NHA. Special Preview is Highveld Horse of the Season, Crimson Waves carries the Beck colours back into the winner’s enclosure and Durban Turf Club cuts stakes.

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Joe Soma and Special Preview

Sands of Time: April 1994

March 27 – April 2 UK Sales company Tattersall changes its catalogue format. The new style is hardly radical, as it merely bring the company

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1994 National Year;ing Sale - American Voyager

Sands Of Time: March 1994

February 27 – March 5 Turf club officials in Zimbabwe confirm that South African Jockey Club officials are in the country, but decline to comment

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1991 Gr1 Schweppes Challenge - FLAMING ROCK2

Sands of Time: January 1994

Just 23 horses accept at the second last entry stage for the J&B Met. Raymond Koedyk is believed to be the first South African to be taxed on Pick Six winnings. Windy conditions make for an upset in the Gr1 Cape Flying Championship. The untimely death of champion sire Foveros comes as a severe blow to the beleaguered South African breeding industry. No less than seven of the runners in the Gr1 Arc-en-Ciel Paddock Stakes are by Elliodor or his son Model Man. The Gr1 J&B Met is won in fairytale fashion by 20/1 shot Pas de Quoi, a seven-year-old who comes in from the cold after standing a season at stud in ’92.

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David Payne

Sands of Time: December 1993

1993 blows out with Volume 4 of the Racing Record, a new chairman for Durban Turf Club and a proposal to merge Milnerton and Kenilworth approved unopposed. A Little Ballerina wins the Cape Guineas, Marla causes an upset in the Sceptre Stakes and Jean Heming is shot in a vicious attack. TAB Transvaal introduces the Superfecta and Take A Walk wins the Queen’s Plate for David Payne, pushing him R1 million ahead of his nearest rival on the trainers’ log.

Abroad, absent-minded jockey Desormeaux costs Kotashaan the Japan Cup, Basil Marcus extends his lead on the Hong Kong jockey table by winning the first leg of the Hong Kong Triple Crown aboard River Verdon, while Robbie Fradd is crowned Mauritius champion jockey. Coolmore announce that Sadler’s Wells stud fee has increased to IR100.000 guineas. The British Jockey Association launches the first Jockey Championship and Wolverhampton stages the first race meeting under lights.

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