No Bragga As First-Timer Goes Missing
It will be a long time before the bookmakers recall the name Al Bragga without a warm glow spreading through their systems
12th August 2019
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It will be a long time before the bookmakers recall the name Al Bragga without a warm glow spreading through their systems
Dubai to Durbanville for any professional jockey would probably be the equivalent of David ‘Golden Balls’ Beckham playing at Wembley one week and then back to the Chase Lane Primary School field of his youth in Leytonstone near London the next
Certain used needles and syringes seized at Mr Stewart’s Racing Stables in Noordhoek were found, upon analysis, to contain, inter alia, Phenylbutazone
The parlous level of stakes in Cape racing is no April Fool’s Joke. It is no laughing matter at all when we race a Durbanville MR 86 Handicap for R11 000 less than a Turffontein Maiden Plate 24 hours earlier
“She wasn’t striding out on the grass but she would work beautifully on the sand on the beach. Then one day I worked her at low tide (when the sand was firm) and I saw she wasn’t striding properly. The next morning I took the shoes off and she strode out nicely once more”
What looked like a straightforward day with small fields and some well fancied runners produced a Pick 6 dividend of R213 058-90 in the end. Cape racing in winter is not for the weak of heart!
Cape trainer Mike Stewart wins the R130 000 Listed Glenlair Trophy with Paddy O’Reilly
A genius ride by veteran jockey Fareed Anthony and three of the four jackpot legs won by offspring of Jet Master.
The prodigious talent of Richard Fourie caught his fellow jocks fast asleep at Kenilworth today. A track running fast and a deceptively powerful tailwind are
Trainer Piet Steyn broke the losing drought with a facile win by his Daylami filly Super Elegant at Kenilworth on 23 November. She now takes her place in the Avontuur Fillies Guineas next weekend, and while Steyn is under no illusions, he says that he will be going out as a serious contender in the prestigious Gr1 event.
Beyond the pending investigations, things ended well enough for the Bass-Robinson yard when the improving Rainbow Lorikeet stamped her Paddock Stakes prospects with a gutsy victory under a top-notch ride by Aldo Domeyer
