Big Race Rider Back In The Saddle
It’s been frustrating being on the side lines, but I am thankful and grateful that barring anything going wrong, I will be ready for the Durban season.
7th April 2016
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It’s been frustrating being on the side lines, but I am thankful and grateful that barring anything going wrong, I will be ready for the Durban season.
Weichong Marwing’s neuro surgeon has granted permission for the top class jockey to begin physiotherapy on his back in order to strengthen it
The Alec Laird trained Smart Call will take her place in the Gr1 J&B Met after making a sensational local debut to score a superb win in the R1 million Maine Chance Farms Gr1 Paddock Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday
The beautiful grey daughter of Fort Wood caught part owner Joe Van Streepen’s eye when he shrewdly picked her out of the National Yearling Sale catalogue based on her pedigree
Trainer Alec Laird took his next step towards a bid for Paddock Stakes glory when the Ideal World filly Smart Call came home strongly to win the R400 000 Gr2 Ipi Tombe Challenge
A first and fourth in the Gr1 Woolavington as Mauritzfontein Stud celebrate the ‘arrival’ of their exciting stallion Ideal World
A top-class display of pacesetting race-riding by Weichong Marwing would have given Alec Laird’s Argentinian-bred BoucletteTop a major confidence booster for the Highveld Season as he went all the way in first-time blinkers
The daughter of Toreador was given an armchair ride by Weichong Marwing and kept things in the family as she runs in the red and blue silks of his wife, Anneli
Cape based Highlands Stud produced three winners , including an outstanding debut win by a Cape Premier Yearling Sale debutante who looks to have plenty to come. Four winners for seasoned rider Weichong Marwing and doubles for trainers Sean Tarry and Ormond Ferraris passed by almost unnoticed
The full brother to Red Ray was bought by Markus Jooste for R1.5 million at last year’s CTS Premier Yearling Sale and was then put into the Durbanville Ready To Run Sale in order to qualify him for the R2 million Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes. Watch him at 12h35 today on Tellytrack (Dstv 239)
Uncle Tommy signals Emerald Cup prospects with runaway win in R200 000 RA Flamingo Park Mile
Big race sponsors Hollywoodbets have set the pace in the pre-nominations ante-post betting market for the 2025 Hollywoodbets Durban July with defending champion Oriental Charm topping the opening board
In our weekly column entitled Time Is Money, we look at some of the past weekend’s highlights, including some slow-run Grade 1 contests at Turffontein
