De Kock’s Champions Cup Power Punch
Mike de Kock’s Buffalo Bill Cody and year younger stablemate Soqrat will contest the R1 million Gr1 Champions Cup
15th July 2019
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Mike de Kock’s Buffalo Bill Cody and year younger stablemate Soqrat will contest the R1 million Gr1 Champions Cup
He is fit and well and his duel in the sixth race with Gr1 Gold Challenge runner-up Cirillo should be a fascinating one
The son of Gimmethegreenlight will be much fitter when he takes on Hawwaam this time!
‘He rides him at work every day – and he hasn’t told me he is not riding Hawwaam!’
We probably don’t have enough Workriders races in KZN
A 9,75 length aggregate winner of his last two Gr1 starts, Hawwaam went through the motions off a moderate early pace in the seven horse field at his KZN debut start
The 3yo, who had social media and the chat forums buzzing after his shock withdrawal prior to the SA Derby last month, stamped himself a colt with a bright future
It’s been just a week since that amazing Wednesday at the National Yearling Sale that saw a dazzling new South African record sales mark set
The power of the foreign buying bench has always been a strategic balancing factor in the thoroughbred sales scheme of things.
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
