No hassle for Mr Cassel!
The jockey duel fizzles out at Turffontein on an afternoon where trainer Lucky Houdalakis and jockey Donovan Mansour celebrate a great double.
30th July 2011
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The jockey duel fizzles out at Turffontein on an afternoon where trainer Lucky Houdalakis and jockey Donovan Mansour celebrate a great double.
It’s a heads up heads down to the Champion Jockey title for racing in South Africa. Anton Marcus may have sealed it with 5 superb winners
This surely cannot be a difficult game to market. The exotic pools sent a clear message to our industry captains at Kenilworth on 27 July.
With just six racemeetings left of the current season, Anton Marcus finally got the upper hand in the jockey championship race and took a slender
Derryl Daniels’ brilliant ride in the Scottsville feature on 24 July showed that our jockey talent is not only skin deep. There was something special about his very clever ride on Alec Laird’s mare, and it shows again that when the ‘ordinary’ guys get the chances, they too can ride winners.
Everybody got a look-in at Kenilworth on 23 July. A top Milnerton trainer, a small Phillip yard, a long battling maiden and a great debut by a Dynasty debutante. Riverworld Stud also celebrated a unique hat-trick. A balanced and entertaining day!
Underrated jockey Stuart Randolph showed the main guys a thing or three at Scottsville on 21 July. His power riding and great judgement was the highlight on a day when the top two guys- you know their names by now – had to be satisfied with just one cheque each.
The tussle for the SA Champion Sire title took a few twists and turns at Durbanville on 20 July with three winners each for Jet Master and Captain Al. Super Saturday is shaping as the gunfight at the O.K. Corral at this stage of the game!
The pace makes the race. Some of the races run at the Greyville night meeting on 19 July were seemingly infected by a dose of the ‘Cape
The very valid argument for supporting Kimberley racing and giving turf battlers a new lease on life, gained further momentum on Monday 18 July, with two
It is obvious that we are nearing the end of a long hard season judging by the threadbare supporting bill on today’s Clairwood card. Even the most diehard punters would have found the fields generally lacking in quality and quantity and the afternoon’s entertainment was rather flattered by the healthy Pick Six pool of R2,8 million, which benefitted from a sizeable carryover. The chasm between the superb Grade 1 race and the six maiden plates on the card is a wide one and one wonders whether we should be looking to the trainers or the race programmers for answers and explanations?
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
