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Summerveld trainer Dennis Drier has the pedigree of a champion
4th October 2020
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Summerveld trainer Dennis Drier has the pedigree of a champion
A terrific Avontuur-bred Keagan de Melo-ridden double opened the stand-alone Kenilworth programme on a sun-drenched typically Cape February summer day
Superstar Frankel took his global stakes footprint reach to seven countries when he produced his first South African stakes winner
Despite looking to have a bit to do at the weights, Dennis Drier’s 6yo Wealthy charged home from miles off the gallop at any price
An alarming drift before the off signalled trouble for backers of the odds-on SA Horse Of The Year Oh Susanna and the champion daughter of Street Cry came up for air late
Smart first stakes success for daughter of Count Dubois
It almost passed unnoticed but Dennis Drier clinched the 2000th winner of his career when the three-year-old gelding Hard Core passed the post first on debut in the first race at Greyville on Sunday
After being crowned KZN Trainer Of The Year on Friday evening, Summerveld veteran Dennis Drier found his team back on track with a welcome treble at Greyville on Sunday
Average handicappers get their chance to compete for bigger stakes
This could be the very talented filly’s swansong as she stands out as a valuable broodmare prospect, with a host of top-class suitors in waiting
South Africa’s premier national championships of the turf only officially start this Friday at Greyville, but the KZN trainers showed their mettle in the Scottsville curtain-raiser day by lifting three of the four features on offer
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
