Our Facebook snap poll gets over 3000 hits in just hours as racing fans vent their feelings about the Wylie Hall demotion and the general sentiment doesn’t weigh in favour of the Stipes’ decision to promote Legislate!
Just over two frenetic minutes coupled with a few moments of madness is all it will take to settle the scores in today’s R3,5 million Gr1 Vodacom Durban July. When the sixteen gates explode to release an atomic rush of equine brilliance, all the debate and opinions that went before will no longer matter.
The day dawns! Controversy and politics aside, the Gr1 Vodacom Durban July is a race with every element guaranteed to produce a thriller!
Piere Strydom miraculously extracted a final surge of energy from out of the blue, from the outstanding Jet Master colt Pomodoro to win the 2012 Gr1 Vodacom Durban July. What a race!
The R3 million Gr1 Vodacom Durban July is a special horserace and wonderful social occasion no matter who you are and where you find yourself at 16h20 on Saturday 7 July.
The R3 million Gr1 Vodacom Durban July has been variously described as lacking depth and overall class, but whatever the opinion, one thing is guaranteed. Africa’s Greatest Horserace always provides thrills and entertainment out of the top drawer.
Our annual Gr1 Durban July poem – Will Jackson save the Duke of Castlethorpe’s daughter, the Beach Beauty?
With a full field of 20 runners taking to Greyville for the Vodacom Durban July Handicap, we have provided you with an incredible amount of facts and trivia relevant to the 115th running of this incredible race! Did you know that Mike De Kock,
ROBYN LOUW: Every ‘July’ is an event and this year an unusually interesting and interconnected group of runners in this Durban July
The Gr1 Vodacom Durban July is the Holy Grail for any owner of racehorses in South Africa. Having a runner in Africa’s Greatest Horserace starts years before the first week of July.
Beyond the pending investigations, things ended well enough for the Bass-Robinson yard when the improving Rainbow Lorikeet stamped her Paddock Stakes prospects with a gutsy victory under a top-notch ride by Aldo Domeyer
