Some Really Bad Ideas
LANCE BENSON: Are we marketing the game correctly? This crossed my mind after spending Sunday at Durbanville in the company of a few dirty pigs in the parade ring
6th March 2013
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LANCE BENSON: Are we marketing the game correctly? This crossed my mind after spending Sunday at Durbanville in the company of a few dirty pigs in the parade ring
LANCE BENSON: We really cannot cry foul when we get nailed six love in the betting arena.
SARAH WHITELAW: Champion sire for five consecutive seasons, Jet Master’s last crop of yearlings go through the sales ring this year.
LANCE BENSON: I believe it was author Robert C Gallagher who suggested that change is inevitable – except from a vending machine. And it is indeed strange that the racing operator would have allowed the sponsor to tinker with the veritable ATM machine that is the J&B Met.
ROBYN LOUW: Life doesn’t come with an instruction manual. Which obviously adds enormously to the challenge and the mystique, but sometimes an instruction manual might not be all bad.
SARAH WHITELAW: Following on a year which saw exceptional performances on the racetrack, 2013 sees a number of horses worth following.
ROBYN LOUW: A horsey friend from Joburg joined me for the Guineas. Her last experience of racing was some 20 years ago when people dressed to the nines and you had to jostle for a good view. How things have changed.
SARAH WHITELAW: Capetown Noir’s win in the recent Gr1 Cape Guineas was the 20th Grade One winner for his sire Western Winter, who has topped the South African sires list three times, and has a plethora of sire sons at stud.
ROBYN LOUW: As the year draws to a close, we examine where we went wrong, celebrate where we went right, and adjust our game plan for next year.
A top-class 3yo classic on the Saturday before Christmas and the presence of a legend of the turf is bound to have some of the old school heading down to Kenilworth this weekend.
ROBYN LOUW: Our youngest sales company’s debut on the ready to run market was announced with much fanfare, luncheons, country-wide road shows, attractive payment plans for vendors as well as buyers and of course that tantalising carrot, the R2 million CTS Ready To Run Stakes
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
