While he is just ticking over and counting the days to his Cape Summer Season campaign, and with the racing programme not offering much in the way of suitable options, Louis Goosen’s Trippi gelding Trip Tease faces a milestone in his career at the Vaal on Thursday
The barrier draw and some luck in running look set to play an inordinately dominant role in the R350 000 Gr2 Post Merchants to be run over 1200m on the Greyville turf on Friday evening.
A versatile galloper, Whiteline Fever won’t be at Greyville next month after three gallant attempts to win Africa’s greatest race, and instead steps out in a sprint at Turffontein
“The Vaal sand is not a racetrack and I can’t imagine there is a worse track anywhere else on earth,” says multiple champion jockey Piere Strydom
Joey Ramsden and Anton Marcus are supremely confident about the prospects of their KRA Guineas winner, The Conglomerate. But are they underestimating the Gauteng based filly and the Tarry, Strydom and De Beyer brains trust?
This was a gross embarrassment for South African racing. At the rate that we are going, we really can’t blame the casino’s or mobile phones or international sport – or whatever else we love to blame
Strydom has won a total of 5074 races in his extraordinary career with 72 of these being won overseas. In combination with this he has won a total of six championships since the 2000/2001 racing season
While he feels he might be at a 3kg to 4kg weight disadvantage with Khumalo, the fact that Lerena hasn’t won a Champion Jockey title yet could make him even more determined. “I came very close in 2012, missing out on the title by one win, this would be my first,” said Lerena
The moment was lost on Tellytrack, who chose to show us a harness race from Penrith instead of broadcasting a momentous historic moment in SA horseracing
South Africa’s greatest jockey of all time reached yet another milestone in the incredible journey of his illustrious career in the saddle when he piloted the Lucky Houdalakis trained Allegorical to victory in the first race at the Vaal today, Thursday 14 May
Multiple champion jockey Piere Strydom approaches the Turffontein Saturday meeting just two winners short of his 5000 local winner milestone
Finding the words ‘excitement’ and ‘insurance’ in the same sentence is as rare as breeding a Triple Crown winner!
