“I don’t even want to think about the Triple Crown right now,” Baffert said. “I want to enjoy this. It’s tough at Belmont Park. I’ve been there and I don’t want to think about it for another couple of weeks.
Lowell Price and Leigh Southey comprised some of the last, bright flickers from breeding’s halcyon days and it would be remiss of me not to doff my hat at their passing.
“We’ll be discussing Majmu’s future with Sheikh Hamdan and Angus Gold, we’ll be looking at export flight schedules, but at this stage the Durban July via the Daily News is the most likely option we’ll exercise with her.”
The trainer for the world’s biggest stable convinced the owners of Single Gaze they should pay up the $150,000 late entry fee and have a crack at the big prize
As Brugman pointed out, there should be more to come from the gelding when he is trained for the race rather than the stalls but the Mike Bass-trained winner is also expected to show improvement at Turffontein.
Mike De Kock’s Majmu steps out for a likely clash with Sean Tarry’s Siren’s Call in the SA Fillies Classic
A plaster cast will assist the healing process and Delpech will be pursuing every known method that can potentially speed up this process
There is a tangible sense of serious summer racing in the air down Kenilworth way and the quality midweek topliner at the Southern Suburbs venue hosts the seasonal debut of Justin Snaith’s exciting Var colt, the Gr2 Umkhomazi Stakes winner Harry Lime
Trainer Pat Shaw has had an exceptional record with ex-Argentinean raced horses in his time at Kranji and with the mantra of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” ringing loudly in his ears, the association continues in 2014.
“They won’t allow us to have any more stables in Port Elizabeth so I have to look elsewhere. It’s getting harder in PE every month but at this stage I plan to keep the operation there. I will have 26 boxes in Jo’burg.”
The classic has a long and proud history dating back to 1955 when it was run as the Cape of Good Hope Guineas
