With the Rising Sun Gold Challenge and the Cup Trail to come the week after this meeting where some older hard-knockers will be making their final bids for a big race run, all the July hopefuls racing this weekend will have to give it a full go
Futura and Legislate will meet for the first time since the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate in the Rising Sun Gold Challenge at Greyville
Geoff Woodruff’s 2014 Triple Crown winner Louis The King has been retired from racing following an injury sustained in work
There is still plenty of potential value for the astute punter as we enter the 44 day countdown to this year’s Vodacom Durban July which will be run at Greyville on Saturday 4 July
He may be the hottest equine property around and the closest thing to being crowned SA Horse Of The Year this season, but champion Futura gave his backers a few anxious moments at 1-3 as he enjoyed what in the end was a happy ending to an impressive winning comeback
Veteran conditioner Stan Elley took a giant step into the Vodacom Durban July limelight, when saddling first and third in a thrilling climax to the R350 000 Gr2 Betting World 1900
There is plenty at stake in this evening’s R350 000 Gr2 Betting World 1900, where the jostle for Vodacom Durban July places steps up a notch. A forward showing could naturally go a long way to reserving a date with destiny on Saturday 4 July.
The first declaration and first supplementary entry stage for the Vodacom Durban July was reached on 12 May.The original entry tally of 68 horses has been reduced to a total of 60
“There are three ways of getting into the July, through the front door (the top qualifiers like Futura, Legislate and Majmu), the side door (the mid-log incumbents who are relatively safe) and through the back door (the last minute feature race winners and placed horses who stake a late claim) and if you don’t make it you don’t deserve to be there.”
The R350 000 Gr2 Greyville 1900 will be run at Greyville on Friday 15 May. With fifteen Vodacom July runners carded to run, there will be plenty of interest in this feature
Thinking back over the years of gambling on horses, who doesn’t remember a decent ante post strike as one of their favourite horse racing memories, long after the money was spent?
Two South African star performers in Dean Kannemeyer’s Gimme A Prince and the Vaughan Marshall champion 3yo One Stripe, who runs in Sunday’s HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap, feature in the first edition of the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2025
The tongue-twistingly named sprinter was bred and is owned in South Africa, trained by a US-based Brit and will be ridden by a French-based Belgian
