War To Break Out In Summer
Act Of War has the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate on January 9 as his main target for the Cape Town season
2nd September 2015
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Act Of War has the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate on January 9 as his main target for the Cape Town season
The masterful trainer wrote another personal chapter in the South African horseracing history books at Kenilworth on Sunday when he saddled the winners of two colts’ Guineas within the space of twenty four hours
Day of glory for Joey Ramsden and owners Ingrid and Markus Jooste as Dynasty colt Act Of War reaffirms his status as the SA champion 3yo. The world is his oyster and there cannot be a more exciting horse on the African continent right now!
A classic to sort the national needle out for once and for all. The R1 million Grand Parade Gr1 Cape Guineas at Kenilworth today has all the ingredients of a sellout. Local champion Act Of War squares up to KZN’s jet-setting Aussie, Harry’s Son and Trippi’s wealthy undefeated Zambezi River, from Gauteng
Who can recall when last such genuine heartfelt horseracing related emotion was felt on a scale witnessed at Kenilworth on Saturday? The outstanding Dynasty colt Act Of War had just nominated himself as a likely Cape Guineas favourite with a scintillating victory in the R400 000 Gr2 Selangor Cup but his big moment was simply overshadowed by the great jockey on his back
Besides the fact that the Dynasty colt Act Of War has won 4 from 5 and enjoyed a profitable Cape winter, what must really be exciting his trainer is the Gr1 collateral shown by the beaten Mljet in the KZN Champions Season
It was hardly surprising to see trainer Joey Ramsden follow up on his splendid Gr1 Gold Challenge celebration at Clairwood 24 hours earlier when he saddled his eighth Langerman winner as Act Of War scored at a wet and cold Kenilworth on Sunday. The win would have been tinged with some disappointment though as the yard’s smart colt, and punter’s favourite Kingvoldt, ran a dismal race
A superb confidence boosting Gold Challenge win will give trainer Joey Ramsden plenty of positivity as he is set to saddle his eighth Langerman winner in the 21st century when he sends a quartet of runners to post for the Gr3 Langerman at Kenilworth today
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
