Leading Cape West Coast owner Sabine Plattner has won the J&B Met twice and now sets her sights on the R5 million Gr1 Hollywoodbets Durban July with the news that her East Coast Radio Gr3 Cup Trial winner Airways Law was supplemented into Africa’s greatest horserace on Monday.
The familiar grass green, indigo and gold silks were carried to second place by Angus in the 2002 Durban July behind Ipi Tombe.
Flashback to 2003 – Piere Strydom and Angus win Met in Plattner silks
The son of Northern Guest then went on six months later to win the 2003 Met. The Plattner silks were again triumphant in the Cape flagship in 2013 when carried by the longshot, Martial Eagle.
So can the unlikely hero Airways Law be the first Hollywoodbets Durban July winner for the German businesswoman and her private trainer, Andre Nel?
He certainly has come from nowhere and has had only eight starts, winning five of those.
The son of 2014 Durban July winner Legislate was having only his second outing on turf on Saturday, and simultaneously registered his first stakes success and victory on the turf with his scintillating turn of foot to win the Hollywoodbets Dolphins Gr3 Cup Trial, a ‘preferential consideration’ ticket for the big one on 2 July.
Airways Law (Gareth Wright) flies up on the inside of the consistent Mount Anderson (Keagan de Melo) to win the Hollywoodbets Dolphins Cup Trial (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
The NHA handicappers used Snaith’s Warrior as the line horse and Airways Law was upped from a 90 to a 108 for his efforts on Saturday.
The chestnut is likely to carry 53kgs if he gets a shot at the Hollywoodbets Durban July.
The Hollywoodbets Durban July final supplementary entries close at 11h00 on Tuesday, 14 June. The weights will be published thereafter.
Final declarations close at 11h00 on Monday, 20 June.
The announcement of the final field and the barrier draw allocation will take place on Tuesday 21 June, and will be broadcast on GallopTV and Racing 240. Times and further details follow!
