Winning Form’s recordbreaker Richard Fourie crowned yet another milestone in the greatest season of his career so far when he equalled Greg Cheyne’s longstanding Eastern Cape winners record at Fairview on Friday.
Richard Fourie achieves his record-equalling 116th winner of the term in the Eastern Cape on Grazinginthegrass (Pic – Pauline Herman)
The 38 year old Fourie has swept all before him this term, breaking the long held Anthony Delpech SA record some weeks ago.
He rode three winners on Friday afternoon, including the ultra consistent gelding Grazinginthegrass to his record-equalling 116th winner of the term in the Eastern Cape.
The son of Philanthropist was registering his 15th career success, and Richard has been aboard at an extraordinary ten of those!
Trained by Alan Greeff, Grazinginthegrass transferred from Mike de Kock’s some years ago due to his dislike for travelling, and he has been a revelation in his adoptive home.
Greg Cheyne originally set the East Cape record in 2017/2018 with 90 wins, bettered that tally by one in 2018/2019 up to 91, and then made history as the only jockey to exceed 100 wins in Gqeberha in one season when riding 116 winners in the 2019/2020 term.
Cheyne took 455 rides to get to his mark – by our calculations Richard did it in 452!
The season is not over yet.
Enjoy the replay:
