Smart Call
We catch up with Alec Laird and Breeders’ Cup hopeful, Smart Call in Newmarket
26th July 2016
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We catch up with Alec Laird and Breeders’ Cup hopeful, Smart Call in Newmarket
Anton Marcus enjoyed a profitable day at the Greyville Saturday office and showed that he knew what he had under him in the Queen Palm Stakes
Trainer Dean Kannemeyer can do little wrong from his Summerveld base and he was on the feature mark again at Scottsville on Sunday
Persian Rug has been a frustrating filly for her connections and punters. The obviously talented daughter of Ideal World once had everybody thinking that she was looking for ground to show her best
Off on the first leg of her journey to America, where she will attempt to emulate her paternal grandmother Banks Hill by winning the Breeders Cup Filly and Mare Turf
Over the centuries that man has been racing horses, there have been many special ones along the way. Each had some special quality that marked them out as different, a cut above the rest and it’s a quality that transcends time, borders and continents. These are horses that change lives and re-set the course of destiny. These are the magic horses.
Despite glancing behind in disbelief, JP van der Merwe never stopped riding all the way to the lollipop – as the winner drifted out marginally in the process of his enthusiastic, albeit largely unnecessary, urgings
The Alec Laird trained Smart Call will take her place in the Gr1 J&B Met after making a sensational local debut to score a superb win in the R1 million Maine Chance Farms Gr1 Paddock Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday
Trainer Alec Laird took his next step towards a bid for Paddock Stakes glory when the Ideal World filly Smart Call came home strongly to win the R400 000 Gr2 Ipi Tombe Challenge
Trainer Mike Azzie and jockey JP Van der Merwe scored the first leg of a scintillating feature double at the Vaal on Saturday, when the Ideal World filly Peep Show scored a facile win in the R150 000 Listed Supreme Fillies & Mares Stakes
A first and fourth in the Gr1 Woolavington as Mauritzfontein Stud celebrate the ‘arrival’ of their exciting stallion Ideal World
Charl Pretorius pokes a bit of fun as we brace ourselves for a rollercoaster ride through the absurd, the outrageous, and the downright unbelievable in South African horse racing
