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Saggiatore Axed
Ricky Maingard’s Ice Axe asserted his supremacy over arch-rival IL Saggiatore to win the Gr1 Phoenix Beverages Maiden Cup run over 2400m at the Champ de Mars in Mauritius on Sunday
Ricky Maingard’s Ice Axe asserted his supremacy over arch-rival IL Saggiatore to win the Gr1 Phoenix Beverages Maiden Cup run over 2400m at the Champ de Mars in Mauritius on Sunday
Parisian Affair, in foal to Foveros, fetches top price of R400.000 at the Highdown dispersal sale. The buyer is Norman Tilley. Sixty six lots at the sale average R41.000.
Cynics would say “I could have told you that”, when the odds-on favourite gets run over in the bookmaker sponsored Pip James Stakes (WFA).
Finding the words ‘excitement’ and ‘insurance’ in the same sentence is as rare as breeding a Triple Crown winner!
As the clock ticks toward this year’s renewal of South Africa’s most iconic of races, the Hollywoodbets Durban July, it is only fitting that we return to the start of the new millennium and recall all the drama and splendour