SA Champions Season – Key Date Changes
The lockdown and suspension of racing has necessitated important changes to South Africa’s premier racing season
15th April 2020
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The lockdown and suspension of racing has necessitated important changes to South Africa’s premier racing season
The extension of the COVID-19 lockdown to the end of April now looks set to threaten the scheduled start of the SA Champions and effectively scupper the remainder of the Highveld Season
Jonathan Snaith spoke to the Sporting Post after Snowdance put up a top-class gallop at Scottsville this morning
Sun Met winner Rainbow Bridge and Vodacom Durban July and L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winner Do It Again, could celebrate the opening meeting of the SA Champions Season
Saftote are offering a jackpot over the two meetings with a turbo boost of a R50 000 bonus pool to get the pool rolling
Now here’s some serious horseracing action to get excited about!
Top Cape trainer Dean Kannemeyer has nominated two runners in a bid to complete the double in the R500 000, Gr2 Betting World 1900 at Greyville
South Africa’s Champions Season in KwaZulu-Natal will kick off in fine style at Greyville on Sunday, May 7
Just when the KZN trainers looked somewhat hard-pressed to hold their own in the SA Champions Season Gr1 pool this year, in steps a bang in-form Kahal 6yo from the Mark Dixon yard
While the cream of the crop from near and far are set to do battle, do the home yards even stand a chance of collecting any of the prized silverware on offer?
South African Champions Season’s fever usually begins with the running of the Byerley Turk meeting, which was held at Greyville on Friday night
‘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’
It’s clear that eight incidents of crop excesses is unacceptable for a sport keen to maintain a good public image, and the time appears to have arrived for a review of the crop rules for work riders on the Highveld
