Another Special Finish!
‘It doesn’t get much more nail biting than this clash. Two of the best 3yo horses we have seen in a very long time’
5th April 2020
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‘It doesn’t get much more nail biting than this clash. Two of the best 3yo horses we have seen in a very long time’
For the second year running, the Mike De Kock-trained National Emblem gelding Shea Shea won the Gr3 Meydan Sprint on Super Saturday
New PE trainer is quick off the mark again as she registers thrilling first feature winner at Fairview on Friday
A Klawervlei Bred sprinter carried the flag for SA bloodstock in the Al Quoz Sprint after Highlands Stud’s Soft Falling Rain had won earlier
SARAH WHITELAW: John Koster pays tribute to the former champion race horse, and successful sire, National Emblem has died.
National Emblem, sire of ten Gr1 winners, died on Wednesday at Klawervlei Stud at age 21.
SARAH WHITELAW: Looks at the long history of the Epsom Oaks being won by some of the sport’s greatest fillies; and the father/son combination of National Assembly and National Emblem
This time it was Shea Shea who lifted the spoils, which neatly perhaps answers the question of why Earl Of Surrey was not in the line-up again.
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
