Trainers will argue that horses running this past weekend would not have been at their peak but with the July under three weeks away, there isn’t a lot of time left either to fix whatever may be broken
It will be interesting to see which way the panel goes with Futura being one of the earlier fancies and not winning. Will they pick him as one of their lucky picks? Either way it makes no difference to me but they might as well make a farce of the whole situation…
The Australian bred gelding is not running in the Vodacom Durban July but may get his big chance in the Champions Cup on Super Saturday. Best of the July hopefuls was Sean Tarry’s Halve The Deficit, who did everything but win
We are very disappointed at the way things have been handled as it would have been wonderful to try and win the race for Markus, Bernard and Jim, so we’re doing this with a heavy heart, but we’ve got to do what’s best for the horse.
Yorker is out. King of Pain tops the weights at 60kg. This was announced when the official weights for the Durban July were published on 10 June
Vodacom Durban July weights and overall picture is thrown a curved ball as Cape longshot wins final Gold Challenge to be run at Clairwood and clocks up hat trick for Joey Ramsden
“We haven’t had the answers we were hoping for to launch an overseas campaign via the USA and while a very slim hope exists that we will hear of an alternative by Monday, we will be running him in the July.”
Rule change means more potential opportunity for the youngsters to make a name for themselves on what is one of our biggest racedays of the year
At the second declaration stage, 34 of the original 71 entries stood their ground. Geoff Woodruff trained Yorker retains top spot on the Vodacom Durban July log ahead of the Daily News winner Legislate.
Have a look at the weights for the top 20 from the current Log as they would be today
Charl Pretorius pokes a bit of fun as we brace ourselves for a rollercoaster ride through the absurd, the outrageous, and the downright unbelievable in South African horse racing
