6th December 2017
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Meeting was abandoned as a result of lightning and thunder after the running of the second race.
‘Teetotal is a nice filly, if not too green can run into the quartet’
Horseracing’s great conflict with its own rules, process and rationality came home to haunt in the Greyville third race on Friday evening
Only two first timers at Greyville this evening
Some first-timer comments for today’s meeting
The massive storm registered the highest daily rainfall figures for South Durban since records began
The race meeting at Greyville today has been switched from turf to the Polytrack
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!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
