Unbeaten in two starts last term and presumably kept away from the KZN winter season to be targeted at the big Cape races, Ebony Flyer was starting for the first time since she won a Listed event in Port Elizabeth in June and was the strongly supported 2/1 favourite from an ante-post call of 7/2, despite being drawn unfavourably
Kavanagh looked weighted to kill when he took on 15 fellow three-year-olds in the Graham Beck Stakes over 1400m at Turffontein on Saturday, and even a very wide draw couldn’t stop Mike de Kock’s colt from justifying his role as the well supported 22/10 favourite
Success Counts took advantage of a hefty pull at the weights and the best of the draw to cause a 14/1 surprise in the Starling Stakes for three-year-old fillies over 1400m at Turffontein (standside) on Saturday. The race marked the seasonal debut of
It was widely anticipated that a filly would win the Emperor’s Palace Ready To Run Cup at Turffontein on Saturday, and one promptly did, but it wasn’t the one that almost everybody was expecting. This highly restricted sales race over 1400m on the standside course went the way of 22/1 outsider Hollywoodboulevard, who capsized the red-hot favourite Igugu to finally confirm the great promise she had shown when scoring by seven lengths on her debut in April.
Much has always been expected of Alderry and the four-year-old rewarded the patience of her connections with an emphatic win in the Peermont Emperor’s Palace Charity Mile over 1600m at Turffontein (standside) on Saturday. Victory in the race which was better known as the Germiston November Handicap in the good old days before racecourses were being closed down faster than liquor stores during Prohibition marked a first Stakes success for Alderry, who was one of only two females in the 16 strong line-up for this premier handicap event
Sunday’s Hollywoodbets Greyville feature, the non black-type Model Man Mile, won by Mike de Kock’s Artist’s Model, paid tribute to one of South Africa’s greatest turf legends of the 20th century.
