17th June 2013
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Birthday smiles for Strydom as Agra cruises in to win the R130 000 Listed Milkwood Stakes
ROBYN LOUW: Theo de Klerk notched up 6 winners on a single card on 21 June 1975 and Terrance Millard matched the feat with 6 winners on 13 January 1982.
Jet Explorer opens July horizons with great win in the R350 000 Gr2 Betting World 1900
True Master wins R350 000 Gr3 East Cape Derby and crowns a magnificent weekend for Snaith and Strydom
Another stakes win for Jay Peg as Flash Drive powers away to grab top honours in the R150 000 Gr3 Cape Of Good Hope Nursery
Snaith to the fore again in Eastern Cape as Icemberg wins R90 000 NBT Arlington Flying Five
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
