Crawford Marches On
Brett Crawford’s East Coast sizzling summer SA Champions Season campaign continued unabated at Greyville on Friday evening
17th June 2017
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Brett Crawford’s East Coast sizzling summer SA Champions Season campaign continued unabated at Greyville on Friday evening
Piere Strydom and Justin Snaith teamed up with the enigmatic Captain Splendid to grab top honours in the opening feature
Superstar speed mare Carry On Alice bowed out of her illustrious track career with a fifth Gr1 success on Saturday
The fairer sex held centre stage at the TBA Sales Complex in Germiston with a beautifully bred Captain Al filly topping the session charts at R1,8 million
The Milnerton-based pair have always enjoyed great success at Scottsville and they would have been thrilled with the return to winning form of their promising Gr1 winner
Lost luggage and a slipped saddle couldn’t stop Richard Fourie and Justin Snaith from opening their 2017 KZN feature account
The son of Captain Al is upping his game and his improved form curve suggests we may see him around for a few SA Champions Season features in the months ahead
A 1600-1 hat-trick by Charles Ndlovu for East Cape champion trainer Alan Greeff was the highlight of an entertaining Fairview Friday turf meeting
Cape Guineas winner William Longsword confirmed his connections’ dreams and plans firmly on track for his impending career as a stallion
Champion racemare Carry On Alice showed her courage and blue chip ability when withstanding a towering late challenge from her stablemate Trip To Heaven
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
