Queens Plate winner – The Day After
Justin Snaith produced the Gr1 gem for owner Hassen Adams when the Australian bred 3yo colt Gimmethegreenlight won the Gr 1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate
7th January 2012
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Justin Snaith produced the Gr1 gem for owner Hassen Adams when the Australian bred 3yo colt Gimmethegreenlight won the Gr 1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate
LANCE BENSON: The curtain comes down on another tumultuous and testing year. While much has changed, one wonders if we really are any better off than we were twelve months.
Midweek racing doesn’t get much better. Especially for Darryl Hodgson and Dean Kannemeyer. The one had three winners, including a ‘mini’ Igugu possibly, while Kannemeyer showed his Classics hand in what looks a big Cape Guineas contender at this stage of the game.
Four Australian-bred horses won on the Kenilworth card on 27 August. Not bad going that, but local is still lekker and in the current climate, a helluva lot cheaper too!
A filly and colt by Dynasty made top prices at the National 2yo sale where the average prices for colts and fillies were down, but median prices showed that the middle and lower end of the market recovered from last year’s drop.
ROBYN LOUW: I am proud to say that I have been a part of the Sporting Post for an entire year now, so my enormous thanks to the wonderful team as well as everyone who puts up with my weekly musings!
The 2011 Vodacom Durban July turned into a celebration for Mike De kock and Anthony Delpech for the second year running. Their star filly Igugu silenced her detractors and left a trail of broken dreams and dented egos in her wake…
This time last week we were looking forward to the 163rd renewal of the World Sports Betting Cape Town Met
In a new weekly column we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights, and set the fractions with Saturday’s Hollywoodbets Kenilworth WSB Cape Town Met racemeeting
A seasoned racing fan writes that in the zone between 15 and 3 minutes before the official race time, nobody is interested in listening to the personal fancies and various constructions of the presenters’ exotic permutations
Leading South African-based owners Hollywood Racing have broken new ground with the acquisition of five yearlings during the Book 1 session at Karaka this week
