Jet Master, Western Winter dominate Ready-to-Run
Jet Master and Western Winter shared the top price of a round One Million.
19th December 2012
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Jet Master and Western Winter shared the top price of a round One Million.
A split second hesitation probably cost the desperately unlucky odds-on favourite King Of Pain victory, as Felix Coetzee produced the smart 4yo Changingoftheguard with a sustained burst to win the Gr3 Matchem Stakes at Durbanville on Sunday.
LANCE BENSON: It may not have come anything near to the larney Emerald show up North, but it was all happening at the Big D.
Trainer Dean Kannemeyer dishes up the class entertainment for punters on our National Braai Day public holiday on Monday at Durbanville.
We haven’t seen a solitary racemeeting in the Western Cape this season. And with the city cloaked in a grey wet and cold blanket, the prospect for Wednesday can’t be considered too rosy
The true home-baked value of investing in the progeny of stallion Dynasty is underlined by his dominance of the 2012 Champions Season feature events. Two of his less illustrious sons could grapple over the spoils of the highest rated race at Durbanville.
ROBYN LOUW: The press release from the NRB left the Cape racing fraternity reeling. Cancelling race meetings is absolute anathema. I did a bit of digging to try and find out more. And the more people I spoke to, the less clarity I had.
The cancellation of the Durbanville race meeting this Wednesday 14 March due to insufficient final acceptors has highlighted the need for the Western Cape fixture list to be fine-tuned
ROBYN LOUW: When I recently spent Heritage Day at Durbanville, I did a quick straw poll of my fellow racegoers. One of the most interesting groups I chatted to was entirely unhorsey – they just happened to live near the racecourse and said that they liked to pop round on summer evenings, park on the grass and watch the last few races.
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
