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An intuitive ride by Bryanston Auctioneers-sponsored JP van der Merwe produced the magic for the Snaith team and some more despair for favourite backers at Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Saturday
While many Pick 6 players would have bankered the champion in the hands of Winning Form-sponsored Richard Fourie, trainer Sean Tarry did caution the public during the week that his charge had done her work, but was overweight and could need it
The Mauritian Magician took the undercard honours with a treble aboard Wunderbar, Winning Data and Global Harmony to have 14 winners for the season to trail only Zac Purton and Hugh Bowman
The fourteen year long visitor stranglehold on the ‘Gqeberha July’ continued at Fairview on Sunday when the Justin Snaith yard celebrated their fifth winner in the past ten renewals of the R350 000 Jonsson Workwear Listed Algoa Cup
With seven more meetings to go in the season Fitzsimmons does have a serious chance of clinching back-to-back trainer titles
Clearly more fired up than ever since Cape Town has become a welcoming home-from-home for top trainers like Gareth van Zyl and Adam Azzie, the Snaiths securing of low-key Gqeberha resident Yuzae Ramzan was to prove a masterstroke
After taking some flak just seven days earlier at the same venue, jockey Calvin Habib silenced his detractors in the best way possible with a well-taken Varsfontein Stud-bred feature double
The progressive 3yo went gun-to-tape to win smartly for Turffontein trainer Tony Peter and owner Suzette Viljoen
Philippi trainer Brett Crawford only took two horses up the Garden Route for the 2023 Algoa Cup Festival which commenced at Fairview on Friday
‘It’s nice – it’s been a long time coming’ – Dougie Whyte on his treble
A R150 000 National Yearling Sale buy Blue Holly has won 3 of her 9 starts with 3 places for stakes of R337 580
Former SA Champion jockey Andrew Fortune’s six month quest to be relicenced to ride again reaches something of a watershed
