How Long Have These Silks Been Around?
It was a day for vintage racing silks in the feature winners’ enclosure at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday.
26th December 2020
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It was a day for vintage racing silks in the feature winners’ enclosure at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday.
It’s been a while between drinks for the well travelled Australian-bred mare Roy’s Riviera
The festive guaranteed Pick 6 pool, with a 10% top-up bonus for winning tickets taken on course, has proved a winner and today’s popular exotic kicks off in the fourth at 14h20, with R1,7 million the bottom line
On a day where the Joburg raiders battled to get a shout in edgeways, Calvin Habib rode a beautifully judged race from off the pace on the Hill galloper, who also gave her beautifully bred sire a first SA stakes winner
The visitors hold what looks to be a strong hand on the double feature billing
The Varsfontein-bred 3yo returned from a ten week break over a distance short of her optimum trip and beat a classy field to register her first stakes success
There are many that will be pleased to see 2017 fade away to a memory and the Flamboyant Stakes has the honour of bringing the national feature curtain down on a topsy turvy horseracing year
Promising apprentice Lyle Hewitson made it two Greyville features on the trot in the same silks when he rode another finely judged race to win Sunday’s Gr3 Flamboyant Stakes
Local hopes will lie with the 2016 top two, Olma and Lala, who will be out to stem the tide of a strong challenge from up North
An inability to speak his owner’s language proved a godsend for Summerveld trainer Frank Robinson when he purchased the classy Dynasty filly Olma at the 2013 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale
Last season’s Equus Outstanding Stallion Dynasty celebrated a top two finish in the Gr3 Christmas Handicap at Greyville last weekend and he could repeat the feat at the same venue on Friday evening
James McDonald closed a highly successful short-term stint in Hong Kong with a quartet at Sha Tin on Sunday
