The Nightingale Flies
The R1 million Gr1 Klawervlei Majorca Stakes produced the finish of the afternoon at Kenilworth on Saturday
29th January 2017
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The R1 million Gr1 Klawervlei Majorca Stakes produced the finish of the afternoon at Kenilworth on Saturday
Just days after selling the highest priced yearling in South African history, Drakenstein Stud owned runners finished 1-2-3 in the R1 million Gr1 Klawervlei Majorca Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday
“When I saw Cold As Ice two lengths in front I knew she would be hard to beat. As we went past the post together, Piere Strydom said I think you just ran second. But I knew I had won – I have been riding at Kenilworth long enough.”
An outstanding field of our best fillies and mares will face the starter in the Gr1 Majorca Stakes. Could there be a pretender to her throne?
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
