A terrific winning burst of eight winners over four days at four different venues has seen Bonji replace the hard-working longstanding pacesetter Andrew Fortune at the top of the SA National jockey standings.
‘Even in wheelchairs, Anthony (Delpech) and Weichong (Marwing) could ride most of the guys in the jockey room to sleep’
The R2,5 million Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes produced an upset result of some proportions when the free-striding Budapest went all the way from a favourable draw to score a ridiculously easy win
The six man South African team captained by last season’s Champion Jockey, Gavin Lerena, has once again won the annual International Jockeys Challenge
There was plenty of raw emotion coupled with a satisfying sense of mission accomplished for Louis Goosen when he unsaddled the progressive Doing It For Dan after a scintillating win
The two Ready To Run Cups had owners and trainers ‘chasing the money’ earlier in the day, leaving Muwaary to test his mettle against runners rated between 6 and 20 points below his 100-rating in a Graded race worth a pitiful R250 000
Avontuur-sponsored newly crowned KZN champion jockey Anthony Delpech and multiple champion trainer Mike De Kock got their 2015/16 racing season off to a flying start when the prepped-to-the-minute Mogok gelding Wild One stayed on best of all
Entisaar draws first blood for the Australian-breds as she opens the Champions Day feature programme to emulate her stablemate Majmu and wins the Gr2 SA Fillies Nursery
“This is a funny game. I thought I had a weak card tonight. Just goes to show,” said the top jockey
It was fortunately not a complex fracture and Delpech originally planned to be back in time to partner star 3yo Majmu in the J&B Met on Saturday
A plaster cast will assist the healing process and Delpech will be pursuing every known method that can potentially speed up this process
