Now Newbury Stakes Under The Whip
Prize-money levels at Newbury have already been criticised by trainers, including last month when a Listed race offered just £14,461 to the winner
18th September 2019
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Prize-money levels at Newbury have already been criticised by trainers, including last month when a Listed race offered just £14,461 to the winner
Facing association with racetrack dates back to 1919 – now here’s an example of old school loyalty!
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
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
