Pure Guineas Gold
When Tap O’ Noth landed Saturday’s Gr1 Cape Guineas, he ensured his late sire Captain Al joined an elite group of stallions
18th December 2017
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When Tap O’ Noth landed Saturday’s Gr1 Cape Guineas, he ensured his late sire Captain Al joined an elite group of stallions
Justin Snaith saddled his fifth Gr1 Cape Fillies Guineas winner in the past decade when the Captain Al filly Snowdance stamped herself a leader of her generation
The legacy of multiple Equus champion sire Captain Al is set to live on in the history and form books of our racing for decades to come
7yo son of Captain Al shows his younger opposition a thing or two with a gutsy display of galloping
There have been a number of stallions who have done well when mated to daughters of another particular sire
The 2016-2017 season is fast drawing to a close in the Southern Hemisphere, and champion sires will soon be crowned
A day after surgery to treat laminitis, the illustrious Captain Al has bid us goodbye.
A cracking start-to-finish effort from Cup Trial runner-up Crowd Pleaser opened the July day feature programme at Greyville
Dual Gr1 winner Captain America’s full-brother Redeemer caught the eye with a good win at his fifth start at Kenilworth on Wednesday
Milnerton trainer Vaughan Marshall, who won the race last in 2010, labelled Saturday’s Listed Langerman winner Tap O’Noth a ‘very smart colt’
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
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
