Joey Keeps Good Company
The colt may not be a serious Investec Derby horse at this stage but he has plenty of scope for improvement over more ground and should get better over time
10th January 2015
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The colt may not be a serious Investec Derby horse at this stage but he has plenty of scope for improvement over more ground and should get better over time
This is a game of soaring highs and testing lows. While one champion son of Dynasty was going out of the back door another was writing his name into the South African horseracing history books
The Striker legend dominated South African horseracing in 2014 as one of our newsmakers of the year with his milestone of 5000 winners and the outstanding jockey has started 2015 like a 25 year old supercharged wizard.
“This is what dreams are made of. I have watched her work and I felt I haven’t trained a horse like this since Via Africa. She was sluggish out of the gates tonight, but she is a racehorse!”
The enterprising Corne Spies is never scared to race his horses wherever he sees the opportunity and the only 3yo in the field was having his sixth outing in two months
It was a shrewd move by Reeves to allow Nonki Poo to take her chances at grabbing some black type and decent pocket money in the Eastern Cape.
After the failure earlier in the day of the fancied Generalissimo, Captain Of All’s victory would have been a tonic for the top KZN yard, who have enjoyed mixed fortunes in the Cape summer so far
A stroll in the park. There is no other way of describing the promising 3yo’s victory in the Listed sprint feature on Saturday
The Colin Scott-trained Fourth Estate is something of a Greyville specialist and he registered his first stakes victory at his 44th start at the advanced age of 7
Two progeny of our ill-fated multiple champion sire Jet Master appropriately filled the top two positions in a race named in his honour at Kenilworth on Cape Guineas Saturday
Day of glory for Joey Ramsden and owners Ingrid and Markus Jooste as Dynasty colt Act Of War reaffirms his status as the SA champion 3yo. The world is his oyster and there cannot be a more exciting horse on the African continent right now!
