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
4th July 2014
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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.
The premature loss of Lancaster Bomber (War Front) was a sad setback to the South African thoroughbred industry
The highest-rated horses in all but one race – Parisian Walkway, who achieved his highest performance figure over 1600m – claimed the top four positions in each of this past weekend’s Grade 1 and Grade 2 races (excluding the two-year-old races).This provides strong validation regarding the effectiveness of the rating system!
In one of the most high-profile in-race incidents of the past five years, former SA champion jockey Gavin Lerena was found guilty of four charges, while Jason Gates didn’t escape punishment
Glistian Events’ Joao da Mata chats to Cape Racing Chairman Greg Bortz about the path ahead for SA horseracing
