Twelve Hollywoodbets Durban July entries will step out at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday as the 2022 SA Champions Season gets underway with a bumper ten-race programme.
The best of our thoroughbred horsepower are expected to converge on the East Coast over the next three months, with plenty to race for.
In addition to the increase in the Gr1 Hollywoodbets Durban July stake from R2m in 2021 to a highest ever R5 million, there is a further stakes top-up of R13 million by Hollywoodbets and Gold Circle being injected into minor races and feature races from 1 March – 31 August, bringing the total to an incredible R16 million.
Three Gr2 features headline the Saturday card, headed by the individual sex Guineas and the traditional July launch-pad of the Independent On Saturday Drill Hall Stakes.
L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winner Jet Dark returns from a break after chasing Kommetdieding home in the WSB Cape Town Met.
Linebacker – Marshall star starts his KZN campaign (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
Linebacker, who ran third in the Met, commences his East Coast campaign and the 2021 Daily News 2000 winner will be aiming to go one better on 2 July after being beaten by Kommetdieding in last term’s July.
Dean Kannemeyer’s Russian Rock, winner of the 2020 Cape Guineas, has been how own worst enemy with his antics of pulling and overracing, but has hopefully matured as a 4yo and will be given a chance to show his ability.
There are nine Hollywoodbets Durban July entries who will line up in the WSB Guineas on Saturday.
Dean Kannemeyer has been blessed by the barrier gate gods with his pair of Diadem winner Cosmic Highway and recent Byerley Turk runaway victor Waterberry Lane starting from 1 & 2 respectively.
Dean Kannemeyer’s high-class Cosmic Highway (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
Other interesting July hopefuls include the Snaith pair of Double Superlative and Pomp And Power, Vaughan Marshall’s Senso Unico and Johan Janse van Vuuren’s Gauteng raider Outofthedarkness.
Making up the 3yo Hollywoodbets Durban July entry contingent are local hope Passsage Of Power, Plattner Racing’s Master Redoute and the Listed Sophomore Sprint winner, Zapatillas.
The thirteenth Hollywoodbets Durban July entry in action this weekend is Paul Peter’s Naval Guard, who runs in an MR 92 Handicap at Turffontein on Sunday.
The free-to-enter Hollywoodbets Punters’ Challenge offers a R2 million progressive jackpot at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday, but with the added incentive of a R500 000 must-be-won prize for the player/s who predict the most winners on the ten-race card.
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