SA Jockeys Under Pressure
The historic Clairwood Racecourse in Durban will host the final leg of the three-meeting ACTS International Jockey Challenge on Sunday.
13th November 2013
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The historic Clairwood Racecourse in Durban will host the final leg of the three-meeting ACTS International Jockey Challenge on Sunday.
Is he not in effect suggesting that pulling the wool over the public eye, whether intentional or not, would have been a far better route to have followed?
LANCE BENSON: Seemingly always on the back foot, but not quite scoring the boundaries. That’s the battered child of horseracing in any average week. The latest issue of Finweek magazine calls it the Sport Of Rogues, while Gold Circle Racing Director Graeme Hawkins has acknowledged that pleasing all of the people all of the time is ‘impossible.’
ROBYN LOUW: there was a certain amount of huffing and puffing about the latest International Jockey Challenge
LANCE BENSON: Against the background of hype and excitement of the international jockey team vs the Springboks, it seems rather bizarre and ironic that a cash carrot has to be dangled by the racing operator to ensure that minimum field sizes are met.
ROBYN LOUW: They say sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds!And doesn’t it just.
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
