Tellytrack Channel 239 on the DSTV bouquet, will be providing an absolute feast of high class action for South African racing fans this weekend and SuperSport have also scheduled two slots of live, saturation coverage from Epsom Downs in England on Friday and Saturday respectively.
The Tellytrack action begins with the Investec Epsom Oaks meeting from the UK on Friday and then has an unbelievable package on Saturday that includes the Gr 1 Rising Sun Gold Challenge meeting at Greyville, the OK Grand Challenge meeting from Borrowdale in Harare, the Investec Epsom Derby meeting from England and then the cherry on the top, the full meeting from Belmont Park in NewYork, which will include the Mike de Kock-trained Mubtaahij’s bid to win a potentially history-making event as the brilliant Bob Bafffert-trained American Pharoah attempts to become the first horse for 37 years to win America’s coveted Triple Crown.
Furthermore, SuperSport Select (channel 210) will have nearly three hours of live saturation coverage of the Investec Epsom Oaks meeting on Friday from 15:00 until 17:45 and SuperSport 6 (channel 206) will be screening the Investec Epsom Derby itself on Saturday from 17:20 until 17:50.
The Investec Epsom Oaks meeting starts at 15:00 South African time with the Gr 3 Princess Elizabeth Stakes and other big races are the Gr 3 Investec Diomed Stakes at 16:10 and the Gr 1 Investec Epsom Oaks at 17:30.
The Gr 1 Rising Sun Gold Challenge is the only race in South Africa that was rated in the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities’ (IFHA) top 100 races in the world.
The ten race Rising Sun racemeeting on Saturday begins at 11:30 and the feature races are the Non-Black Type Durban Dash at 13:15, the Listed Devon Air Stakes at 14:00, the Listed Gatecrasher Stakes at 14:35, the Gr 2 Tibouchina Stakes at 15:10, the Gr 1 Rising Gold Challenge at 15:45 and the Gr 3 Cup Trial at 16:25.
The OK Grand Challenge meeting begins at 11:50 and the Gr 2 OK Grand Challenge will be run at 15:25, where Borrowdale Racecourse are expecting over 60 000 people to participate in the great Shop, Gallop and Win promotion! No less than 44 cars will be given away on the day as well as 15 plots of land, plus cash prizes amounting to $25 000 and many other great treats on the day.
The Investec Epsom Derby meeting begins at 15:00 South African time. The Gr 1 Coronation Stakes will be run at 16:10 and the Gr 1 Investec Epsom Derby will be run at 17:30.
The Belmont Park racemeeting has eleven races that begin at 17:35 South African time. The big one, the Gr 1 Belmont Stakes, will be run at 00:50 in the early hours of Sunday.
There will be full South African TOTE betting facilities for all of these meetings.
