De Kock Slams Forum Phantoms
‘If racing is so bad, why are you still around? Why don’t you do us all a favour and get out?’
7th February 2020
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‘If racing is so bad, why are you still around? Why don’t you do us all a favour and get out?’
Mike de Kock is very happy with the condition of Hawwaam ahead of Saturday’s Sun Met and is actually pleased he is drawn wide, although
‘I really don’t know what to say. It’s unprecedented, I’ve never seen anything like this!’
Mike de Kock’s Queen Supreme galloped into the record books at Kenilworth on Saturday and joined the illustrious ranks of his previous Paddock Stakes winners
Mike de Kock’s superstar 4yo Hawwaam was put through his paces by big race rider Anton Marcus under glorious Cape summer skies on Saturday
Multiple champion trainer says it’s all systems go for the big WFA mile on 11 January
Mike de Kock’s Australia—bound Hawwaam is set to shorten dramatically in the betting for the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate and the Sun Met after a facile first victory in the Cape at Kenilworth on Saturday
Mike de Kock’s power duo of Saturday’s Summer Cup runner-up Soqrat and superstar Hawaam are set to launch an attack on the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate-Sun Met double before being exported to Australia
The champion trainer’s quote of the week included a reference to the honour and privilege of having three horses rated 131 and above in his yard
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
