Red Ray May Return To SA
Officially the best three-year-old in the country when he bowed out 18 months ago, he may yet return to South Africa after his so far abortive overseas campaign
11th November 2015
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Officially the best three-year-old in the country when he bowed out 18 months ago, he may yet return to South Africa after his so far abortive overseas campaign
I cannot wait to get back to Kenilworth – and hopefully the new course – as soon as possible. I am sick and tired of this ridiculous system of entering horses at Durbanville and then drawing 45 or 50 and the fields then end up with only eight runners
Joey Ramsden’s Listed Somerset 1200 winner Tar Heel makes his season debut at Durbanville on Saturday
Futura and fellow stable star Legislate are building up for their five-year-old campaigns but there is no indication yet whether either or both will take on Act Of War in the Green Point Stakes
The weak exit of England from the rugby world cup just goes to show what a complete nation of losers we are with a complete lack of introspection, suggests Joey Ramsden, who had better luck on the racecourse than the rugby pitch this weekend
I have been lucky enough to be selected for the panel. I have quite good results from my past selections but I have no doubt my luck will run out at some stage. It is an extremely tough job as one does not get much time to look at one’s notes. To then give selections whilst on this illustrious panel, with its many famous eagle-eyed experts, is not easy!
He suggested having ten races to enter the horses in and choosing the eight best and biggest fields. Well, if ever anything was open to complete and total manipulation, that was it!
The one thing that might have slipped past us all is the most fantastic performances of Usain Bolt. He must surely be the coolest man on this planet. If only there was someone like that to promote racing
Donavan Mansour is moving from Johannesburg to Cape Town and he rides at Kenilworth today for the first time since his apprenticeship days
There are no sales for a couple of weeks so we can get on with the business of training the horses. We are all in the middle of vaccines and trying to work our way around them. It is not easy but we seem to be winning and I am looking forward to pulling out some of the better horses in the next few weeks
I am off to the Equus awards tonight, followed by a swift trip back home and then back again as there is another sale to be held in Johannesburg in a couple of days. It is a bit like playing gin rummy: sometimes one is holding a few too many cards and at the moment I could be caught out with one too many in my hand.
Beyond the pending investigations, things ended well enough for the Bass-Robinson yard when the improving Rainbow Lorikeet stamped her Paddock Stakes prospects with a gutsy victory under a top-notch ride by Aldo Domeyer
