30th April 2011
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Post race information and news relating to major horse races. We review and analyse how these races played out and discuss the details relating to performance and any other interesting facts people in the horse racing industry find useful.
Mike de Kock trained Musir finished third in a blanket finish in the Gr1 BMW Champions Mile at Sha Tin on Monday.
Favourite, the 5yo mare by Pivotal earns first black type win
Debut win for Hard Rock was no fluke whatsoever when he returned to the same course and and won the Godolphin Barb Stakes over 1000m.
Trainer Deon Visser was having the day of his professional life at Clairwood on Sunday – a win in the Gr3 Godolphin Barb for 2yo colts followed by the equivalent race for fillies in the Gr3 Strelitzia Stakes.
Kings Gambit saw off challengers from all sides in the final stages of this Group 3 contest as he made every yard of the running under an inspired ride from Jamie Spencer. The Gr3 race gave a 1-2 for SA sires Silvano & Black Minnaloushe.
Even a wide draw didn’t deter his supporters from sending him out as the 18/10 favourite for this first leg of the Cape Winter Challenge series for 3yo’s
Dancewiththedevil left nobody but the most stubborn in any doubt that she belongs at the top of the older middle distance female pecking order when she gave another impressive display in the Gr1 Empress Club Stakes
Beach Beauty booked her ticket to the Korean Racing Association Fillies Guineas next month when she ran out an emphatic winner of that classic’s one genuine lead-up race
The Dennis Drier yard completed a quick Gr3 double at Scottsville on Saturday with Beach Beauty’s success in the Umzimkhulu Stakes followed forty minutes later by stable companion Phantom Fighter in the equivalent race for males, the Byerley Turk
Captain’s Wild looks to be a progressive sort and the four-year-old coped comfortably with his first tilt at a Feature race when he won the Colorado King Stakes over 2000m at Turffontein (standside) on Saturday.
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!
There’s lots more to play for!
