Snaith’s Biggest Champions Season Yet?
Justin Snaith’s first horse for the SA Champions Season, Platinum Prince, arrived at Summerveld on Thursday and will run in the Gr3 Kings Cup on Sunday 25 March
18th March 2018
No Comments
Justin Snaith’s first horse for the SA Champions Season, Platinum Prince, arrived at Summerveld on Thursday and will run in the Gr3 Kings Cup on Sunday 25 March
‘A high-class individual who will be in the money on debut.’- Snaith
Snaith has been granted 30 boxes at Summerveld and is due to arrive around Easter
Less than a week after winning one of the most coveted prizes in South African horseracing, Justin Snaith and Grant van Niekerk were back in the feature race winner’s enclosure
Justin Snaith will train both the R4 million Frankel colt that topped the CTS Cape Premier Yearling Sale and the R3 million Captain Al who was the joint highest priced filly.
The first 3yo filly to win the Cape flagship in over a century for top owners and breeders Drakenstein Stud
New Cape racing sensation Snowdance was the best bet on the Sun Met card and she duly won in good style – despite hitting the front early
Soldier sprinter Sergeant Hardy breaks new ground with his first Gr1 win
Justin Snaith said the cancellation of the public gallops saved him from having to scratch his Met contender Oh Susanna
A hugely successful Sun Met Beach and Breakfast was hosted at Sunrise Beach in Muizenberg on Friday morning
Justin Snaith ticked the Gr2 Khaya Stables Diadem Stakes off his career bucket list at Kenilworth on Saturday
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
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
