Another Aussie Gr1 For David Payne
The David Payne-trained Montefilia emerged as a star of the future with a brilliant win in Saturday’s Gr1 Flight Stakes at Randwick.
3rd October 2020
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The David Payne-trained Montefilia emerged as a star of the future with a brilliant win in Saturday’s Gr1 Flight Stakes at Randwick.
Trainer of 107 Gr1 Winners, David Payne moved to Australia from South Africa in 2002, without any horses, wanting to make a new start
Wendy Whitehead got her new barn off to a flying start with their first winner at Scottsville on Sunday
He often passed on some of his faults, but you closed your eyes and bought them anyway, because that’s how they ran.
A former SA champion jockey saddled the winner of Australia’s oldest classic at Flemington on Saturday
He was a small man and he liked to wear hats. He was very sharp and always full of jokes and laughs. He was a great person always willing to help people and he was very good to us. Once you’d met Mr Cherry, you wouldn’t have forgotten him.
A Cape-based stallion; some big name owners and breeders; a former champion jockey turned champion trainer and a top former KZN based jockey – it all adds up to a more than sentimental interest for us in a big Gr1 raceday Down Under
I am riding for the in-form stable; Chris Waller is flying and it’s a privilege to be riding for him
Racing history is full of champion horses and colourful characters. Legends of the Turf will be filming reconstructions of some of the pivotal moments in our racing history and are appealing for racing fans to come down and join in the fun
“He’s a wonderful rider and one of the hardest working I’ve met. It’s great to have him back,” says David Payne
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
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!
