
July:More Thrills And Spills?
President Jacob Zuma and the man found guilty of assaulting him after spilling his drink at the 2011 Durban July will be back at Greyville
President Jacob Zuma and the man found guilty of assaulting him after spilling his drink at the 2011 Durban July will be back at Greyville
“There are plenty of experts in racing and everyone is entitled to their opinion. My decision to fit the quarter cup blinkers was taken as a strategic move to get him to focus on the task at hand…”
The Durban July log, showing the current top 20 contenders
Just over two frenetic minutes coupled with a few moments of madness is all it will take to settle the scores in today’s R3,5 million Gr1 Vodacom Durban July. When the sixteen gates explode to release an atomic rush of equine brilliance, all the debate and opinions that went before will no longer matter.
Listening to experts when it comes to finding a Vodacom Durban July winner? Good luck!
If it could be possible, I think that second July win was even better than the first.
Reader’s predictions: old hand William Milkovitch shows his colours, and invites others to follow suit
Genius is an oft-abused term these days, but Millard richly deserves his title as one of South Africa’s most gifted trainers. Terrance Millard won 6 July’s, saddled the first 3 past the post on two occasions
With rain only forecast for Durban on Saturday evening, the Durban July fathers will be holding thumbs that the weatherman gets his predictions more accurate than sangoma Makhosonke Msomi and his KZN elders’ big race predictions over the years.
The legendary Northern Dancer has dominated the runnings of the Vodacom Durban July since the 1990’s. Of the 16 runners for this year’s running of South Africa’s most celebrated horse-race, 13 are inbred to the mighty stallion.
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
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
Outstanding colt Nepotism (Brutal) scored one of the most remarkable Gr1 wins by a 2YO on an Australian racetrack in recent memory