Sandown’s Speciality
An Equus Champion 2yo Colt of his year, multiple Gr1-winner Soqrat has settled in well at Sandown Stud in the Western Cape where he is in his second season
17th November 2021
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An Equus Champion 2yo Colt of his year, multiple Gr1-winner Soqrat has settled in well at Sandown Stud in the Western Cape where he is in his second season
One of the very best of his generation, the Australian-bred treble Gr1 winner will stand his freshman season at the Armitage family’s Sandown Stud in the Western Cape
We felt it prudent to allow Soqrat one more opportunity to prove his rating
Multiple champion trainer says it’s all systems go for the big WFA mile on 11 January
Mike de Kock’s power duo of Saturday’s Summer Cup runner-up Soqrat and superstar Hawaam are set to launch an attack on the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate-Sun Met double before being exported to Australia
The champion trainer’s quote of the week included a reference to the honour and privilege of having three horses rated 131 and above in his yard
The inclusion of Soqrat, who has top weight of 60kg, has resulted in the weights of horses with lower merit ratings being compressed
Soqrat won the Gr3 Victory Moon Stakes at the Vaal on Saturday and earned himself a rating of 133
The NHRA handicappers have reported on their domestic feature race ratings analysis for the past weekend
A stronger 4yo Soqrat taking on the likes of Rainbow Bridge and Do It Again could be a mouthwatering prospect for Cape Summer – but…
On a testing day for the Mike de Kock team, their progressive miler Soqrat was far too good for his ten rivals when winning the R1,25 million HF Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes
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
