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In the many years that the famous brown and white colours of the Beck family have been competing in South Africa, has there ever been a more sensational winner than Lucky Lad in Saturday’s Gr1 Golden Horse Sprint?
Earning HK$9 million for the victory, Romantic Warrior – a Hong Kong International Sale graduate and BMW Hong Kong Derby winner – has now amassed HK$151 million in prizemoney!
SA Champion jockey elect Richard Fourie continued his relentless record-breaking march to his first national title with a polished ride aboard Piet Steyn’s progressive 3yo Meu Capitano
Aidan O’Brien hailed City Of Troy as the best Derby winner he’s ever trained
Shaheen Shaw goes over the card for today’s Hollywoodbets Kenilworth racemeeting
He cost himself winning the Gr3 Winter Nursery last time as he hung inwards throughout – today could be his day!
The National Punters’ Guide for today’s Hollywoodbets Kenilworth racemeeting has been published.
‘No doubt he’s good enough for the top grade, just a matter of time. We will look after him and hopefully he gets a chance to win some more races before October’ – Trainer
Ricky Yiu is optimistic Voyage Bubble can upstage Hong Kong champion Romantic Warrior when the decorated pair clash in the Gr1 Yasuda Kinen
Galaxy Patch has already shown star qualities and trainer Pierre Ng hopes his talented four-year-old can go some way to underlining his potential
Finding the words ‘excitement’ and ‘insurance’ in the same sentence is as rare as breeding a Triple Crown winner!
