Goldmines & Glory
To a certain degree, the careers of Summer Pudding and Empress Club bear striking similarities
21st April 2021
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To a certain degree, the careers of Summer Pudding and Empress Club bear striking similarities
Looking back 27 years ago, Piere Strydom was champion jockey for the 92/93 season, winning 252 races from 1550 rides with stake earnings of R7 million
Saturday’s Gr1 Turffontein feature is named in honour of one of the greatest fillies to grace the turf in this country
The Empress cruised in, easing up by almost three lengths from Please Be True and Queens Gold, adversaries who might as well have raced on a different planet.
More Met fever and the story of how Empress Club completely dominated the race, from before nominations till after she had passed the post.
Felix Coetzee is the ultimate professional athlete and one of the world’s great jockeys. He is in the process of recovering from hip replacement surgery and is keen to get back to race riding
September 5 – 11 Empress Club leaves South African shores for the USA. The filly is to be trained by Charlie Whittingham on the West-coast,
August 1 – 7 All horses turn a year older. Transvaal TAB posts a record turnover of R95.3 million for the month of July. Turnover
JUNE 27 – JULY 3 Hidden Fortune secures a bonus cheque of R300.000 when he wins the SA St Leger, third leg of the Newmarket
Regions of the Cape horse racing industry are to be placed under one controlling body… The British Jockey Club is considering the introduction of random dope testing for jockeys… Frankie Dettori is cautioned by British police for possessing a small amount of cocaine… Michael Roberts survives an objection to win the Irish 2000 Guineas…
Grand National – cock-up beyond the realm of farce… How the Jockey Club copes with crime… Empress Club opens 5/2 July favourite… 7yo Senor Santa wins another Cup… Mark Khan relocates north…
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
