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Both 2014 winner Legislate and Saturday’s Gr1 Woolavington winner Oh Susanna will not take part in the 2018 Vodacom Durban July
3rd June 2018
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Both 2014 winner Legislate and Saturday’s Gr1 Woolavington winner Oh Susanna will not take part in the 2018 Vodacom Durban July
July contenders Elusive Silva, Platinum Prince and African Night Sky could not have pulled up better than they have after their performances at Greyville on Saturday
Justin Snaith is building a 2018 Vodacom Durban July empire, while multiple champion and rival conditioner Mike de Kock is looking to hopefully strengthen his claims when Irish import Cascapedia runs today
Withdrawn on the eve of the 2017 Vodacom Durban July, Justin Snaith’s Silvano gelding Elusive Silva showed that horseracing can sometimes deliver second chances
SA national log leading trainer Justin Snaith paid a generous tribute to Gold Circle after his Vodacom Durban July entry and former SA Horse Of The Year Legislate had bounded home to win a Barrier Trial at Scottsville
‘Sleepy Hollow’ but it could liven up dramatically on Wednesday with the appearance at Scottsville of two long absent Gr1 stars
With a R2 million lead at the top of the table, Justin Snaith may fancy his chances of lifting a second SA title
Sun Met winner Oh Susanna put up some ‘very pleasing’ work on the grass at Summerveld on Thursday morning
“I love my daughter – until the day she comes down the driveway with a jockey!”
Former champion and multiple Gr1 winner Legislate will be returning to racing after fertility problems meant his stud career would not be commercially viable
A possible Cape Winter Series candidate for the Snaiths on this showing!
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
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
