Crack heavyweight jockey Bernard Fayd’herbe rescued Cape trainer Joey Ramsden’s Super Saturday aspirations, as he steered the Silvano mare Gallica Rose to a career best performance in the Gr2 Gold Bracelet
I suppose the best horse won the Gold Cup. He looked well handicapped and ran accordingly. We did not have much luck
Personally, I think it will be a good idea to get together with the top guys to discuss what can maybe be done a little differently to try and improve things – Joey Ramsden
Greyville has been a problem for more years than I care to mention and each year it appears to not even be holding its place as a reasonable surface to race upon but is actually deteriorating
With the field reduced to seven, Milnerton-based Joey Ramsden wasn’t complaining as he grabbed the exacta to make it a hat-trick of wins for the Cape visitors
Superior fitness, a touch of genuine class and a top drawer ride by Bernard Fayd’herbe saw the Joey Ramsden-trained Liquid Mercury lift the honours in a hard fought Winter Derby at Kenilworth on Saturday
Joey Ramsden is the undisputed king of the R200 000 Gr3 Langerman. The Milnerton conditioner, a former multiple Cape champion, goes for an unprecedented ninth victory in the 2yo feature on Saturday and has a strong trio of runners representing him.
We have secured a really interesting jockey booking. It will be fantastic to see one of the world’s up and coming riders, Chad Schofield, ply their trade at Greyville and on our shores. His father was hugely successful in this country
I only hope that whoever is in charge of the advertising for the July and the Met was watching the English Racing Festival and took some notes, suggests Joey Ramsden
Snaith, who won this race in 2008 with Dancer’s Daughter, masked the obvious underlying tension recently, telling the racing media that the Gold Challenge was set to be one of the ‘biggest races we have seen in a long time’
Usually something comes from the slow run one and does you from behind and if you are piggy in the middle, waiting for the one in front to come back, you quite often get done which seemed to be the case here…
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
