It’s always possible – it is not LIKELY but it is unquestionably possible – that one of them, almost any one of them, could be the greatest horse that has ever set foot on a racetrack.
Cape breeders and owners turned out in droves to view Drakenstein Stud’s impressive stallion line up on a glorious day last Friday
The Trippi gelding Night Trip notched up a double when he won the R150 000 Listed Darley Arabian for the second year running. The 6yo certainly runs for Anton Marcus, who was aboard again at Greyville on Saturday
Mike Bass maintained his purple patch of feature form when the Trippi filly Lanner Falcon pulverised her opposition to score a smart win in the R250 000 Gr3 Champagne Stakes on a gloriously sunny Cape winter’s Saturday afternoon at Kenilworth
Lanner Falcon has always had plenty of ability, but has bumped some really good sorts – like when she chased the smart In The Fast Lane home in the Gr1 Avontuur Estate Cape Fillies Guineas of her year.
Superior fitness, a touch of genuine class and a top drawer ride by Bernard Fayd’herbe saw the Joey Ramsden-trained Liquid Mercury lift the honours in a hard fought Winter Derby at Kenilworth on Saturday
A triple Gr1 runner-up in her career so far, Hammie’s Hooker has just been one of those horses loaded with talent, but born in the wrong year
The grandstand finish saw the versatile Fourie,who had ridden a peach of a race from the front on Greg Ennion’s Revved Up in the previous event over 2500m, at his brilliant best as he burgled an unlikely victory
Mike De Kock’s Trippi filly One Fine Day looks set to come into her own as a late 3yo
Trainer Corne Spies produced a jolt for favourite backers when his lightning quick Trippi filly Speedy Suzy turned the tables on the Mike De Kock odds-on favourite Entisaar
Piere Strydom may well be ten years older on average than his colleagues and harbouring niggling injuries but his two winners from just three rides at the Vaal on Tuesday showed again that he has few peers in the saddle
