Parting of the Clouds
Kenilworth is the new venue for the compact eight-race programme on Wednesday, and two quality 4yo’s bump heads to add lustre and interest to the topliner.
31st August 2012
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Kenilworth is the new venue for the compact eight-race programme on Wednesday, and two quality 4yo’s bump heads to add lustre and interest to the topliner.
The R120 000 Listed Jockey Club Stakes to be run over 2000m at Fairview on Friday has attracted a maximum field of sixteen, split evenly between the locals and raiding Capetonians.
Cape trainers Glen Kotzen and Justin Snaith hold all the aces in the Gr1 Garden Province Stakes. Kotzen’s Princess Victoria takes centre stage to show that her SA Fillies Sprint disappointment had more to do with the racing surface on the day, than her five-star ability.
Justin Snaith capitalised on an average line-up of three year olds, to win the Tekkie Town Gr3 Winter Classic at Kenilworth on Sunday 27 May
Pure brilliance. That’s the Jet Master filly Ebony Flyer who bounced back after four months off to win the Gr1 SA Fillies Sprint at Scottsville on Saturday.
Noted breeding and pedigree expert Rob Knuppe calls it the most exciting pedigree make-up in the past decade, and suggests it is a foregone conclusion that this Australian-bred will be challenging South Africa’s top Sires in just a few years from now.
Racing folk somehow love to see their fellow man fall. PE race-caller Alan ‘Bumpy’ Schoeman got his wires crossed at Fairview today and now certain quarters are calling for his head.
A real crowd puller. The looks. The action. The ability. The owner. The trainer.Even the name. Gimmethegreenlight really has it all. Stabled at Randjesfontein with
Trainer Joey Ramsden’s call to his colleagues to render support and run their horses, or face losing races, may be falling on deaf ears. The
The Western Cape makes Kimberley and Arlington look like Royal Ascot or even a hint of Las Vegas on some days. The light drizzle of
They obviously don’t need the money! So suggested outspoken leading Cape trainer Joey Ramsden in a reference to his colleagues’ lack of patronization of Cape
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
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
