“Hey Azzie – you must be bloody good to make me pay R400 000 for a Brave Tin Soldier.” Markus Jooste’s jovial quip to Mike Azzie at the Ready To Run sale may yet prove to be cheap talk!
The weights for the R3,5 million Gr1 Vodacom Durban July to be run at Greyville on 4 July 2015 have been published
The connections of Gold Challenge winner Legislate have made a decision that the son of Dynasty will not take part in this year’s Durban July.
Philippi trainer Stan Elley may have been training racehorses for over four decades, but few winners could have given him more satisfaction than Punta Arenas’ facile victory in Saturday’s R250 000 Gr3 Cup Trial
“I have never considered giving up on this horse,” says jockey as the outstanding 4yo miler Legislate makes it four Group wins from four starts at Greyville and comes out top of the pops in the much publicised ‘Duel Of The Dynasty’s
The 64 year old Elley has enjoyed a cracking KZN Champions Season, and is in the envious position of having two runners on the Vodacom Durban July top twenty log. That is no mean achievement for a yard of his size.
There won’t be a serious interruption of the daughter of Redoute’s Choice’s work programme leading to the Durban July and Mike said: “She’ll be out for a day or two, this is just a little fever we weren’t sure about, she was actually just about fine on Saturday morning.”
The Vodacom Durban July log was revised on Tuesday 2 June and there could still be plenty to play for with the Gr1 Gold Challenge and Gr3 Cup Trial this weekend
“Come on Justin – they can’t both be champions!” says SA horseracing’s very own Larry King, James Goodman, as he interrogates the South African champion trainer in the countdown to Saturday
SA champion trainer elect Sean Tarry has scratched his 3yo fillies Siren’s Call and Trophy Wife from the Vodacom Durban July after both had not pulled up as well as he would have liked following Saturday’s Daily News meeting
French Navy made his R100 000 CTS Ready To Run price tag look silly when he boosted his career earnings to over R3 million in just seven months of racing with a sensational victory in Saturday’s R2 million Gr1 Daily News 2000 at Greyville
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
Cape Racing’s ongoing tussle with Mother Nature in what has been a wet July to beat all July’s, produced a fairytale at a sunny, but very chilly, Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Thursday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
