Making The Cut
We were fortunate to witness two smashing colts at Kenilworth on Saturday. One measure that the connections of Diadem Stakes winner What A Winter and
19th December 2011
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We were fortunate to witness two smashing colts at Kenilworth on Saturday. One measure that the connections of Diadem Stakes winner What A Winter and
LANCE BENSON: Derek Brugmann’s swipe at the lack of promotional and marketing effort of what was a high-class Kenilworth race-meeting on Sunday will hopefully have the effect of girding the lazy loins into action.
The tussle for the SA Champion Sire title took a few twists and turns at Durbanville on 20 July with three winners each for Jet Master and Captain Al. Super Saturday is shaping as the gunfight at the O.K. Corral at this stage of the game!
All is not well down Flamingo Park way it seems. The track was severely criticised on Monday 11 July by trainer Vernon Rugg who termed it a disgrace. At the end of the day punters are left carrying the can for the ineptitude. We agree with Mr Rugg. A disgrace and thankfully somebody is willing to open his mouth,
Often a last chance saloon for battling horses from the major provinces, Eastern Cape racing is seen as something of a second-rate centre where the horses are average, the stakes okay and the racing community extremely friendly and hospitable. We may just have to revisit our perceptions now that Dennis Drier has had a run on the stakes cheques in the past two KZN meetings
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
