Snaith’s Big Night At Equus
The Cape Team’s extraordinary dominance was underlined again at Equus on Tuesday evening
15th August 2018
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The Cape Team’s extraordinary dominance was underlined again at Equus on Tuesday evening
Chrigor Stud-sponsored Richard Fourie has set his goals for the new season and will be joining forces with the powerful Snaith SA Champion team
The have 7 winners on the board – all prepped and saddled by Chris – after having 31 runners at three meetings of the new season
Stuart Randolph takes over from the indisposed Cape Champion Jockey Aldo Domeyer at Durbanville today where an eight-race programme is carded
Justin Snaith crowned his second SA championship title with a superb Gr2 exacta at Greville on Saturday as the progressive Silvano filly Miyabi Gold shaded her year older stablemate Gimme Six in a thrilling finish to the R400 000 Gold Bracelet
Gaynor Rupert’s Drakenstein Stud look set to be crowned SA Champion Owners at the end of this season
After an emotional hangover that probably lasted most of the week following the Vodacom Durban July, Hong-Kong bound Grant van Niekerk bade his Kenilworth home base a fond farewell at his final racemeeting
Grant van Niekerk says that mount had already clipped heels twice and was pulling his arms out of the sockets – he really had no alternative but to take the favourite to lead
Justin Snaith crowned a first Sun Met win in January and a storming final month burst to his second SA Champion Trainer title when he saddled the top three home in Saturday’s Gr1 Vodacom Durban July
Just imagine. You are holding one of a few tickets going into the final leg of the bumper R13 million July Day Pick 6. The lifechanger hinges on your banker, Snowdance…
The connections will be keenly awaiting the handicapper’s assessment of the 4yo gelding’s scintillating performance, which could see African Night Sky carrying as much as 3kgs more in the big race
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
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!
