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A rather out of sorts former Matchem Stakes winner takes on a host of fit distance specialists in the topliner on today’s Youth Day holiday programme at Kenilworth. With the cold and wet weather of recent days, calculations and form could be thrown off kilter and yet another lifechanging Pick 6 dividend could be in the offing.(*Track Cond.: Heavy as at 16h00 on Saturday)
The Australian bred gelding is not running in the Vodacom Durban July but may get his big chance in the Champions Cup on Super Saturday. Best of the July hopefuls was Sean Tarry’s Halve The Deficit, who did everything but win
Justin Snaith’s Var flyer shows her opposition a clean pair of heels to score her first stakes victory in a career where she has shown outstanding consistency
It was the second week running that a stallion had achieved the feat after Var’s daughters grabbed the trifecta honours in the Listed Milkwood Stakes a week earlier.
Precocity in racehorses is often marked by an inability to train on. But Hammie’s Hooker has bucked the trend and looks to be getting better as she matures, despite her mid career slump
Drakenstein Stud bred daughter of Captain Al spreadeagles opposition for easy first stakes victory on a chilly afternoon at Kenilworth
It was hardly surprising to see trainer Joey Ramsden follow up on his splendid Gr1 Gold Challenge celebration at Clairwood 24 hours earlier when he saddled his eighth Langerman winner as Act Of War scored at a wet and cold Kenilworth on Sunday. The win would have been tinged with some disappointment though as the yard’s smart colt, and punter’s favourite Kingvoldt, ran a dismal race
Dubai bound Greys Inn colt maintains his unbeaten record in easy Gatecrasher win and looks like he could be anything at this rate!
Trainer Charles Laird proves his judgement spot on again as a filly he labelled ‘very smart’ comes through her test with flying colours
They say we shouldn’t make excuses for beaten horses so let’s give full marks and all credit to Duncan Howells and Kevin Shea as One Cool Dude downs the boom 3yo.
Vodacom Durban July weights and overall picture is thrown a curved ball as Cape longshot wins final Gold Challenge to be run at Clairwood and clocks up hat trick for Joey Ramsden
It is eerie to think that there would have been no Siren’s Call, Sound Of Warning, or for that matter Call To Unite, had fate not decreed that Enchanted Cove follow her dam to South Africa, and that Peter de Beyer had the foresight to return Elusive Fort back home from the States as well!
