Newsflash: Durbanville Abandoned
Today’s scheduled meeting at Durbanville has been abandoned
13th July 2020
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Today’s scheduled meeting at Durbanville has been abandoned
Favourites took a back seat at this venue last Saturday
The racemeeting scheduled to take place at Durbanville Racecourse on Tuesday 25 February 2020 has been moved to Kenilworth Racecourse
This is the last scheduled meeting at the country course for some time as racing switches to Kenilworth on Saturday
The six year old son of Captain Al steps out in the sixth race, a 1250m Pinnacle Stakes, and the word from the Snaiths is that he is doing well
S’manga Khumalo will not be riding at today’s eight-race Durbanville meeting
High-class horses, a jockeys chase and a potjiekos competition are amongst the attractions
It’s a relatively late start for the eight races carded at Durbanville today.
The 3yo debut of Justin Snaith’s boom General Franco and the career debut of the Dean Kannemeyer- trained National Yearling Sale big-ticket Track Attack will add plenty of interest
When the hammer fell shortly before 15h00 on Friday on lot 346, a beautiful grey Ascot-bred son of Heavenly Blue, the scoreboard reflected that 303 of the 316 lots had sold over the two days for an aggregate of R171 425 000
Wathnan Racing’s Hit Show foiled Forever Young’s attempt at completing the valuable Saudi Cup/Dubai World Cup double
Demand appears to outstrip supply, not surprising given that many smaller breeders – and some of the old stalwarts – have disappeared
