Grant and Joanne Knowles of Equine Marketing Solutions hosted a golf day at Atlantic Beach Links on Wednesday last week to raise funding towards popular Cape racecaller Rouvaun Smit’s exorbitant medical expenses.
Rouvaun suffered a fall at home in March and is undergoing extensive rehabilitation in order to help him to walk again.
Former champion jockey Karl Neisius -can play a bit of golf
Approximately R25 000 was raised and special thanks were extended to the following sponsors (in alphabetical order) for their generous donations & prizes which contributed to making the day a success:
- Betway
- Charl Pretorius
- Gold Circle
- Hollywoodbets
- IXU courtesy of the RX Group
- John Finlayson
- Shaheen Shaw
- Snaith Racing
- Sugar Hotel
- World Sports Betting
A special word of appreciation also went out to both HollywoodBets and World Sports Betting for their generous hole sponsorships.
Results of the day:
1st Place Wynn Davies, Gill Davies, Bryann Shaw & John Spyker – 90 points
2nd Place Welmar O’Reilly, Glen Hatt, Chris Kruger & Chris Jeenes – 89 points
3rd Place Nicho Olivier, Ryan Olivier, Raymond Olivier & Jandre Kleynhans – 83 points counted in
4th Place Paul Barrett, George Bowes, Vadi Pillay & John Savage – 83 points counted out
5th Place Peter Waison, Karl Neisius, Amaro Fernandes & Patrick McGivern – 81 points counted in
Closest to Pin
Hole 3 Riyaaz Parker
Hole 8 Karl Neisius
Hole 14 Gill Davies
In addition to the golf day, some very generous support in the form of stallion services from leading stud farms in the Western Cape has meant that Bloodstock SA have agreed to auction the services on Thursday after the KZN Yearling Sale, which is being held at the Suncoast Casino.
