Pierre Jourdan thrilled his legion of fans when he defied a hefty 6kgs to run out a convincing winner of the Emperors Palace Charity Mile over 1600m on the Turffontein standside course on Saturday.
Tyrone Zackey pulled off a very smart piece of training when Katy’s Lane returned after a 23 week lay-off to win the Starling Stakes for three-year-old fillies over 1400m at Turffontein (standside course) on Saturday.
Astro News proved to be a more than capable stand-in for his late stable companion, Fighting Warrior, when he won the Graham Beck Stakes over 1400m at Turffontein (standside) on Saturday.
Mike de Kock sends out nearly one third of the 16 runner field for Saturday’s Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile on the standside track at Turffontein and it may be Welwitschia who represents the champion trainer’s best chance of landing the spoils in this valuable handicap.
Some top class young females have won the Fillies Championship in recent years, most notably Mother Russia and Ebony Flyer….
With racing returning to Kenilworth on Saturday, the Western Cape season is now truly underway….
Heading up a very busy program in midweek is the Gr3 Yellowwood Handicap at Turffontein on Tuesday night. There’s plenty of class amongst the twelve….
Forty six runners were originally nominated for the Gr3 Algoa Cup and with a number of talented runners making the journey from out of town, it looks to be a very interesting contest…..
With Gr3 events taking place in both Gauteng and the Western Cape, the season, in terms of our top horses, kicks off in fine style this weekend….
Since it’s inception in 2004, Africa’s richest race on sand, the Gr2 Emerald Cup….
Sean Tarry is making a habit of saddling Graded Stakes “exactas.” Less than a month after he sent out Aslan and Kolkata to occupy the first two places in the Gr 1 Canon Gold Cup, the Randjesfontein-based trainer was at it again when The Mouseketeer held off stable companion Across The Ice to win the August Stakes over 1200m on the Vaal sand last Saturday.
