Dog Day Afternoon
A black day for SA racing as shambolic start causes near riot at Clairwood
17th March 2013
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A black day for SA racing as shambolic start causes near riot at Clairwood
The son of Captain Al romped home to beat the star 3yo Contador in the R100 000 Marula Sprint run at Clairwood on Thursday.
A classy 3yo filly takes on some high-flying males over 1000m at Clairwood on Sunday
Trainer Mike De Kock looks to have found a Gr3 gift in Tuesday’s Flamboyant Stakes at Clairwood. His duo of Viva Maria and Checcetti look well handicapped to get punters off to a flying start to 2013.
Trainer Paul Lafferty will not be losing any sleep over with the change of venue to Clairwood for Sunday’s KZN Guineas Trial.
Our midweek racing is bolstered and considerably brightened by the running of the R125 000 Listed Michaelmas Handicap over 1900m at Clairwood on Wednesday.
The National Racing Bureau advises of the move of a race-meeting
A well patronised ten-race programme awaits punters at Clairwood, where sizeable exotic dividends look a real possibility.
Following a two month drought during January and February, the heavy rainfall which accompanied Cyclone Irina on 3rd and 4th March has played havoc with KwaZulu Natal racing fixtures this month.
Clairwood cancelled. It beggars belief that this situation could not be picked up at an earlier inspection, rather than after the running of the first race.
Clairwood racemeeting for Sunday, 18 December has been moved to Greyville due to excessive rainfall.
This time last week we were looking forward to the 163rd renewal of the World Sports Betting Cape Town Met
In a new weekly column we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights, and set the fractions with Saturday’s Hollywoodbets Kenilworth WSB Cape Town Met racemeeting
A seasoned racing fan writes that in the zone between 15 and 3 minutes before the official race time, nobody is interested in listening to the personal fancies and various constructions of the presenters’ exotic permutations
