Bernard Fayd’Herbe had a great day with two winners for the Bass stable, including the progressive Chesalon in the Premiers Stakes. Here’s a direct link to the Mike Bass website
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?
Champion jockey title or not, Messrs Delpech and Marcus will share the horseracing newsmakers of the year award. Their influence on and dominance of the run-of-the-mill meetings particularly, has been overwhelming. It must be tough being an ‘ordinary’ jockey and competing with the talented glamour boys.
A first Cape winner for an up-n-coming PE trainer at Kenilworth and a great Winter Derby success for Greg Ennion. Then there was that little matter of Uncle Tommy at the start of the fifth. Plenty of action!
