Gr3 Man O’ War – Deliver The Power
Deliver The Power appeared to stand head-and-shoulders above his six rivals in the Man O’War Sprint for three-year-olds over 1100m and promptly recorded his fifth win.
2nd April 2012
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Deliver The Power appeared to stand head-and-shoulders above his six rivals in the Man O’War Sprint for three-year-olds over 1100m and promptly recorded his fifth win.
Seven Graded races (including a trio of Gr1’s) form the bulk of this Saturday’s card on the Turffontein standside course, with the Dubai World Cup from Meydan thrown in as race 12 for good measure. Let’s have a quick peek at each of these intriguing contests.
The smaller the field, the bigger the upset, so the saying goes. Upsets in small fields more often than not are due to a slow or false pace. With just eight runners, could the Gr1 Horse Chestnut fall victim to a tactical rather than true-run contest?
No horses have been added into the fields for the R2-million SA Classic and the R1-million SA Fillies Classic at the supplementary entry stage, six new runners have been nominated in the R1-million HF Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes. All three Grade 1 races are to be run at Turffontein on Saturday 31 March.
With a number of meetings having been abandoned in Natal recently, large fields are the order of the day at Greyville on Tuesday night. Always a very competitive handicap, the Gr3 Kings Cup tops the bill and with the going more than likely to be soft, it’s not an easy puzzle to solve….
The R2-million SA Classic and R1-million SA Fillies Classic are among the eight Graded races to be run on the Turffontein on 31 March.
Golden Chateau handed bookmakers a Christmas present exactly ten months early when he sprung a 100/1 upset in the Betting World Gauteng Guineas over 1600m at a damp and grey Turffontein on Saturday.
Following up on her success in the Gr3 Three Troikas, Go Indigo took another step up in class and emerged narrowly victorious in the Gauteng Fillies Guineas on Saturday.
Kavanagh is a deadly 1400m performer on his day and he confirmed it by winning the Hawaii Stakes over that distance on the standside course at Turffontein on Saturday.
Irish-bred Europa Point has continued to improve all season and emerged from a three month lay-off on Saturday to record her first Stakes success when she won the Acacia Handicap.
The Chairman’s Cup run over 3200m at Kenilworth on Saturday makes another strong case for the urgency of introducing sectional timing after In Writing appeared to catch his 11 rivals all napping and ran out a wide margin winner of the summer’s last Graded event in Cape Town
