Marshall Captain To Win First Today
The 2019 Cape Guineas prospect Captain Of Stealth should be the main attraction on today’s eight race Durbanville programme
13th April 2019
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The 2019 Cape Guineas prospect Captain Of Stealth should be the main attraction on today’s eight race Durbanville programme
Anton Marcus set a new benchmark for stakes earnings by an individual jockey on Sun Met Day, and after winning the CTS 1200 on Cirillo, he was back in the payout queue on One World in the CTS 1600
“I’m more nervous when running my first 2yo’s of the season than saddling the odds-on favourite for the Queen’s Plate! You know in 70 odd seconds if it’s going to be all duck or no dinner for the next 12 months – or worse!”
The provisional Sun Met jockey engagements are flowing thick and fast in advance of the final declaration deadline
Maine Chance Silvano stallion Vercingetorix got off the mark with just his second runner when Vaughan Marshall’s Fearless Warrior caught the eye on debut in a Maiden Juvenile Plate run over 1000m at Kenilworth on Saturday
The extraordinary Cape Guineas legacy of a veteran trainer and a champion sire took another giant step into the history books at Kenilworth on Saturday
With a buzzing enthusiastic crowd, the delicious aroma of expert potjiekos chefs at work and the sun blazing down, Durbanville was a happy place for Cape racing fans on Saturday
The Milnerton-based combination of Vaughan Marshall and MJ Byleveld struck with their major SA Champions Season score of the current term
Promises of sectional timing for South African racing have been bandied about for several years now. So what’s happening?
‘A high-class individual who will be in the money on debut.’- Snaith
The Var colt Zinedine stirred the blood like no other two-year-old in Cape Town so far this season
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
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
