War In Winter
Joey Ramsden’s star 3yo Act Of War will be a major drawcard at Kenilworth today as the Cape Winter Season is launched with the running of the R250 000 Tekkie Town Gr3 Winter Guineas
3rd May 2015
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Joey Ramsden’s star 3yo Act Of War will be a major drawcard at Kenilworth today as the Cape Winter Season is launched with the running of the R250 000 Tekkie Town Gr3 Winter Guineas
Milnerton-based trainer Joey Ramsden made it two from two for Cape raiders in the Champions Season opening feature show when the Australian-bred The Conglomerate stormed home under Anton Marcus in the Jooste silks to win the R600 000 KRA Gr2 Guineas
Anybody betting in feature races against Ramsden, Marcus and Jooste Unlimited are doing so at the risk of instant emotional and financial destruction! Like at Fairview today where they hold the ace with St Tropez
The Joey Ramsden mean machine was in devastating form at Kenilworth on Easter Monday and the former Cape champion trainer can secure an early 2015 KZN feature success on his maiden Summerveld sojourn
I really do prefer running them over 1200m first time up as I find they are just not quick enough over the 5 furlongs
Mike Bass, along with a number of other trainers, is determined that Sunday’s race will not suffer a similar fate and says he will declare enough horses to make sure it goes ahead
Apparently there is one member of the band who likes girls with glasses. My younger daughter, Big Zee, seems particularly excited at this prospect as she wears specs
Apart from seeing them and having a good time, they are also bringing their children along for the One Direction concert. I have to say that is the one thing I am definitely not jealous of…
Shakespeare wrote “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” In Variety Club’s case, he definitely seems to fall in the first category.
The champion trainer had the best figures of anybody at Greyville last season. While his July win assured him of being the course’s top trainer he had a strike rate of 26%, a figure bettered by none of the local trainers and only by Dean Kannemeyer (40%) among the visitors
“The horses travelled to Dubai too poorly this time and there is no point in trying to get them ready to race. We will give them a month off and then decide what we want to do with them.”
