Dingaans Thriller
‘Even in wheelchairs, Anthony (Delpech) and Weichong (Marwing) could ride most of the guys in the jockey room to sleep’
28th November 2015
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‘Even in wheelchairs, Anthony (Delpech) and Weichong (Marwing) could ride most of the guys in the jockey room to sleep’
“I think the jury’s out on last season’s top two-year-old colts and fillies, who may not be as good as we have been thinking they are. Rabada, Seventh Plain and our own Entisaar have all failed to win their first three-year-old starts. There are more, including Lauderdale, Chestnuts N Pearls, Melliflora…”
Noah From Goa shares an entry to the forthcoming Dingaans with Mike de Kock stablemates Muwaary and Jubilee Line – and he’s done more than enough now to be considered a contender.
Five Mike De Kock runners destined for campaigns at the 2016 Dubai International Racing Carnival arrived at Newmarket, UK, from their spell in quarantine in Mauritius last week.
This race has been won by some of our best 3yo fillies, and the 2015 renewal looks to deliver something special again
The two Ready To Run Cups had owners and trainers ‘chasing the money’ earlier in the day, leaving Muwaary to test his mettle against runners rated between 6 and 20 points below his 100-rating in a Graded race worth a pitiful R250 000
There will be more than some arm’s length interest for South African racing fans in next Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup
The former Mike de Kock-trained runner Almoonqith, owned by Sheikh Hamdan of Dubai, scored an impressive win in Wednesday’s Gr3 Geelong Cup over 2400m at Geelong Racecourse outside of Melbourne
The races will fill the gap left by Singapore’s decision to drop the Krisflyer International Sprint and the Singapore International Airlines Cup
With much of the field having a prep outing, our chief interest may rest on anticipating just how good Mike de Kock’s Supreme Cup casualty Toro Rosso really is, as he reverts back to the turf
Racing enthusiasts may need to tread wearily at Turffontein today where scratchings have reduced the 3yo Handicap (race 4) to just six runners. Included in the withdrawn trio is our original selection, Mooghamir.
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
