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The ten race Greyville polytrack Sunday programme looks a tricky one but punters could get off to a good start with Swakopmund in the first at 12h00
20th August 2015
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The ten race Greyville polytrack Sunday programme looks a tricky one but punters could get off to a good start with Swakopmund in the first at 12h00
Greyville has been a problem for more years than I care to mention and each year it appears to not even be holding its place as a reasonable surface to race upon but is actually deteriorating
Gold Circle will be looking into possibly reducing the width of the spur for next year’s Vodacom Durban July in order to encourage the runners to spread themselves out over the entire width of the track
With Africa’s greatest horseracing event at Greyville under a fortnight away, it is a touch difficult waxing lyrical about a bread and butter midweek meeting on the polytrack at the same venue
A jockey being stood down at Fairview today for reason of it being a religious day, reminds us of the good old days when Good Friday stood alongside Christmas as the two days of the year when racing took a complete break
Please note that certain races have been switched to the polytrack today
It is KZN horseracing’s first Christmas in close on a century without Clairwood after the Garden Course shut its doors in August this year.Note: The meeting starts earlier than usual at 16h20.
Are there not contingencies that can be put in place to accomodate some of the unforseen? This is after all, a multi-million rand industry, not a church fete
Craig Peters has just announced that the Municipality is testing the current feed to Greyville. Hopes for meeting to go ahead
Power issues and a resultant lack of lighting has delayed tonight’s Greyville night meeting
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
