What looked like a straightforward day with small fields and some well fancied runners produced a Pick 6 dividend of R213 058-90 in the end. Cape racing in winter is not for the weak of heart!
Snaith has hardly taken his foot off the juice since a hectic climax to last season and with Equus and the back slapping shows now behind him, he is all set to start from scratch and do it all over again as he sets sail for his next championship bid.
“Racing. It’s A Rush”…The press release sounds rather pony-tailish – full of words, sure, but tired ones. Our man Bling – charismatic, young, black and a champ in a tough game – would pump life into the marketing. Also for the PR bods to sign up is another young blond, albeit a natural one – Justin Snaith.
Four winners and feature 1-2 for new SA champion trainer means flying start to new season as winter allows Final Fling Stakes to finally happen
Cape trainer Justin Snaith is in the home run of the greatest season of his life. With total stakes earned of close on R19 million, he is R4,5 million ahead of Geoff Woodruff in the SA Champion trainer title race. The Western Cape is also wrapped up but there is still a local title that looks frustratingly just out of his reach down PE way.
This race is run as carded from last Saturday’s abandoned Kenilworth meeting. Please take note of the jockey changes enforced by commitments at the Greyville Super Saturday meeting
If I tried to match the successes that the ERC has had in my own field of speciality, I’d have had to spend 20 million US dollars.
Our Facebook snap poll gets over 3000 hits in just hours as racing fans vent their feelings about the Wylie Hall demotion and the general sentiment doesn’t weigh in favour of the Stipes’ decision to promote Legislate!
A rather out of sorts former Matchem Stakes winner takes on a host of fit distance specialists in the topliner on today’s Youth Day holiday programme at Kenilworth. With the cold and wet weather of recent days, calculations and form could be thrown off kilter and yet another lifechanging Pick 6 dividend could be in the offing.(*Track Cond.: Heavy as at 16h00 on Saturday)
Trainer Justin Snaith: “She will probably run in the Oaks, even though I disagree that they have made it an open race. For us the Oaks and the Derby are for 3 yo’s. It hardly seems fair.”
The Cape trainers look set to continue their domination of the East Cape Derby with a very strong challenge again this year. The occasion also marks the first ‘Prawn Festival on The Bay’
A final field of 17 will face the starter at the Hollywoodbets Kenilworth 2000m marker on Saturday 25 January for the 163rd renewal of the R5 million World Sports Betting Gr1 Cape Town Met
Two past winners of the Cape’s premier summer speed clash are in the fifteen strong line-up
