First Timers In The Pink
The trainers talk about their first timers at the Greyville PinkDrive racemeeting
27th October 2016
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The trainers talk about their first timers at the Greyville PinkDrive racemeeting
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What the trainers say about their first timers at Greyville today
‘Twenty-Twenty’ or Quickfire horseracing was introduced at Greyville on 17 April 2015 and this evening sees another meeting with only twenty minute intervals between races
The race meeting scheduled for Scottsville on Sunday 18 September has been relocated to the Greyville polytrack
The first instalment of the new transparency initiative introduced by Gold Circle, where trainers are approached for comments on their first-timers, has been released
The racemeeting scheduled for Greyville has been changed to a Day / Night meeting, first race due off at 16h10 and last race at 20h00
Remember what the same connections did in the lead up to the last Queens Plate when Marcus jumped off Act of War to ride Legal Eagle? This during an active ante-post market
Joey Ramsden cannot also skip the fact that the three trainers – or for want of a better word, three Gold Circle “stooges” – invited to the meeting, are employed by Gold Circle!
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!
