Multiple Gr1 winner at 3 Gr1 Vodacom July Gr1 SA Derby by Champion Sire and sire-of-sires Jet Master dam Golden Apple – 2012 Equus
G1 placed G3 winner in USA (Timeform 115) by US Champion UNCLE MO (Timeform 127) sire of Champion 2yo & Kentucky Derby winner NYQUIST (sire)
Multiple Gr1 winner in UK Timeform 127 at 3, 128 at 4, 128 at 5 Sire of Horse Of The Year DO IT AGAIN
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
