Gallant Mubtaahij Off To UK
“Those were some bloody good horses ahead of him,” commented Mike de Kock after his first Kentucky Derby runner, Mubtaahij, was beaten 9,25-lengths into eighth place
3rd May 2015
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“Those were some bloody good horses ahead of him,” commented Mike de Kock after his first Kentucky Derby runner, Mubtaahij, was beaten 9,25-lengths into eighth place
South Africa has a double-handed interest in the 2015 Kentucky Derby with Ocho Ocho Ocho, a grandson of the late, great Horse Chestnut and Mike de Kock saddles Mubtaahij for Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Maktoum
The Kentucky Derby will be run at 00h24 (our time) on Sunday morning. We are still awaiting advices from Tellytrack and Saftote as regards television coverage and betting facilities
Entisaar draws first blood for the Australian-breds as she opens the Champions Day feature programme to emulate her stablemate Majmu and wins the Gr2 SA Fillies Nursery
The Justin Snaith pairing of Futura and Legislate head a list of 68 nominations for this year’s R3,5 million Vodacom Durban July
“You don’t give it much thought at first,” the trainer said. “You think of going to the race, and then later, you start thinking about how you get there.”
“He’s never run on it, he doesn’t bleed, and I’m not prepared to take my chances running him on a substance he’s never run on before,” de Kock said
Mike De Kock has Mubtaahij primed to fire in the Kentucky Derby on 2 May!
“We’ll be discussing Majmu’s future with Sheikh Hamdan and Angus Gold, we’ll be looking at export flight schedules, but at this stage the Durban July via the Daily News is the most likely option we’ll exercise with her.”
Trumped by champion international trainer Mike De Kock as the best filly he has trained, the outstanding Majmu silenced her critics with a scintillating second career Gr1 victory when clinching honours in a dramatic R1 million Laurie Jaffee Empress Club Stakes
Rounding out the top five is the mysterious Mubtaahij, a horse that won the 2015 UAE Derby by eight lengths to stamp his ticket to Churchill Downs
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
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
