More Marcus Magic
With just six racemeetings left of the current season, Anton Marcus finally got the upper hand in the jockey championship race and took a slender
25th July 2011
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With just six racemeetings left of the current season, Anton Marcus finally got the upper hand in the jockey championship race and took a slender
Everybody got a look-in at Kenilworth on 23 July. A top Milnerton trainer, a small Phillip yard, a long battling maiden and a great debut by a Dynasty debutante. Riverworld Stud also celebrated a unique hat-trick. A balanced and entertaining day!
We know that jockeys are not allowed to punt on horses but if we allow them to hold colour privileges, what can be wrong with a declared flutter? Surely they are being encouraged to be devious?
Chaos with unnecessary jockey changes and withdrawals, the National Horseracing Authority erring with the wrong scratched horse and first-timers filling the first three positions in the first leg of the Western Cape PA, made for a forgettable afternoon.
A notable highlight on Saturday’s Champions Season raceday at Clairwood is the running of the third and final leg of the fascinating and unique Var Speed Series.
Champion Jockey Anton Marcus found himself outmanoeuvred by promising young apprentice ‘Doctor’ Siphiso Lembethe in the final race at Scottsville on Tuesday 7 June. What makes the young man’s enterprising ride so much more impressive is that he beat Superman on
Joey Ramsden has an unparalleled record in the Gr3 Langerman and won it on Sunday 5 June for the seventh time in eleven years
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
