Newsflash – Durbanville Abandoned
Welcome rains in Cape lead to abandonment of today’s meeting
27th June 2018
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Welcome rains in Cape lead to abandonment of today’s meeting
The National Horseracing Authority and the operators, through their racecourse managers, are going to have to up their game when it comes to preparation and inspection of our tracks
In my experience it does not take skill to criticise and it does not take a talent to be mean. So, where do we go from here and what is the answer to this situation?
The first race at Durbanville is off at 13h00 – it is also the Bipot opener. And Jono Snaith sounds quite bullish about their Querari first timer!
Turffontein is off at 12h30, while the Durbanville meet gets under way at 13h50
Durbanville is our local track and we love it. It’s fun, it’s friendly, it’s easily accessible and what better way to introduce people to racing right on their own doorstep?
One of the attractions of Durbanville is that you always bump into old friends and Saturday was no exception.
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!
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
