Caviar Says No
LANCE BENSON: Black Caviar is giving the Gr1 QIPCO Sussex Stakes a miss and avoiding a potentially mindbending head-on clash with the globe’s highest-rated horse, Frankel.
29th May 2012
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LANCE BENSON: Black Caviar is giving the Gr1 QIPCO Sussex Stakes a miss and avoiding a potentially mindbending head-on clash with the globe’s highest-rated horse, Frankel.
LANCE BENSON: Zimbabwe horseracing has opened its doors and hearts to South African owners and trainers.
LANCE BENSON: Let’s stop pretending and inject a little needle into the sport of kings. It sure seems to work everywhere else!
The absence of collateral form and the unknown natural improvement of the 2yo’s complicates the issue for punters in the Gr2 Umkhomazi Stakes at Scottsville on Worker’s Day
LANCE BENSON: Champions Day punctuates the National Yearling Sale and reflects the glamorous, shiny and happy side of the sport of kings. But the sport also brings out the worst in mankind.
This R2-million race has all the makings of a memorable contest. Bravura and Dancewiththedevil, are faced with the prospect of dusting off the record of their below-par last runs, if they are to stand any chance of getting the measure of a rising star Europa Point.
Stamina doubts lie at the heart of unravelling the Gr2 SA Oaks puzzle. Only 4 of the thirteen 3yo fillies have tried the 2450m trip previously and then only with mixed success.
LANCE BENSON: Trainer Sean Miller’s remarkable training feat of six winners at Flamingo Park on Monday was a fitting tribute to his late father and mentor
LANCE BENSON: We have enough stodgy, starched fakes in action. Bring on the real people like Andrew Fortune and the public ratings can only go in the right direction.
LANCE BENSON: Nothing is more important in horseracing than picking the right horse, whether you are punting horses or buying them. Random swipes in the dark may have worked on the odd occasion but a scientific ordered approach to yearling selection dramatically reduces risk.
LANCE BENSON:The vast chasm between good and poor communication to the public was shown by two separate incidents on our Tellytrack screens last week.
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
