Derby Trial Thriller
With Gambado splitting the other two, Randall Simons dup deep in a blanket flash across the line.
2nd April 2018
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With Gambado splitting the other two, Randall Simons dup deep in a blanket flash across the line.
A possible Cape Winter Series candidate for the Snaiths on this showing!
Mother Russia won the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate in 2011. With her own entry for 2018, daughter Nother Russia lives up to her name – and her heritage
The courageous chestnut mare Nother Russia rounded off a great Summer Cup day for her deceased sire Tiger Ridge
Brett Crawford-trained galloper raises his game to register good win under a terrific ride
Flower Alley was represented by his fourth individual Gr1 winner when his son Bullards Alley landed the Pattison Canadian International at Woodbine on Sunday
Richard Fourie showed he means business this season and took up where he left off with his last weekend Gr1 double
With a comfortable lead on the National Log and the inaugural Gold Cup double header still to come, it’s just a matter of how far as Anthony Delpech prepares to win his third SA Championship
The much anticipated arrival of Rafeef and the news that Coolmore stallion Canford Cliffs sired three good winners this weekend, had the team at the champion Robertson farm looking back on a great few days
Sean Tarry’s versatile Tiger Ridge mare Trophy Wife booked her Gold Cup berth with an emphatic victory
The son of Machiavellian was a top class racehorse, who began his career with Sir Michael Stoute
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
