Honours were evenly shared at the first KZN meeting of the new season at Scottsville on 3 August. Summerveld trainer Mark Dixon enjoyed a healthily priced double, while the performance of the afternoon belonged to the Oppenheimer’s Brooks-Club.
The Super Sunday meeting brought the curtain down on a great season. But twelve races at the final meeting means a long day and do customers really want to spend close to eight hours on a racecourse? The raceday package needs some urgent attention and repackaging and it is now time to test the market.
Same-stable “Exactas” were the order of the afternoon at Greyville on Sunday. Little more than half-an-hour after Sean Tarry sent out the first two finishers to the Canon Gold Cup, Gavin van Zyl pulled off the same trick when The Apache and Bulsara occupied the first two places in the Champions Cup.
LANCE BENSON: Horseracing as an industry has sadly become a cold, uncaring, unsentimental shell, dominated by egos and commercial considerations.
Former jockeys seldom make it to the big time in the training ranks, but Summerveld-based Gavin Van Zyl bucked that trend when he followed up his first Gr1 win as a trainer recently in the SA Derby with Seal, when he sent out The Apache to win the R1 million Gr1 Daily News 2000
In this second of a new weekly column entitled Time Is Money, we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights
This time last week we were looking forward to the 163rd renewal of the World Sports Betting Cape Town Met
In a new weekly column we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights, and set the fractions with Saturday’s Hollywoodbets Kenilworth WSB Cape Town Met racemeeting
A seasoned racing fan writes that in the zone between 15 and 3 minutes before the official race time, nobody is interested in listening to the personal fancies and various constructions of the presenters’ exotic permutations
