Sean Tarry’s top-class 3yo Celtic Sea was crowned leading point scorer in this year’s Charity Turf Challenge with 54 points.
Rainbow Bridge and Do It Again also scored over 50 points thus highlighting the key to the competition.
This year’s winning entry is HORSE CARE UNIT PIX 19 on 334 points and earns R75 000 for their efforts. Well-known former July winning owner Raymond Deacon is said to the man behind the winning entry and he will be donating a portion of his prize to the Coastal Horse Care Unit.
Second placed SHIVI3ZN 16 needed SOQRAT to get the better of RAINBOW BRIDGE to storm ahead of the winner, but failed by a small margin.SHIVI3ZN 16 takes home a tidy R25 000.
MAYEN 2045 was third on 326 points, only one behind SHIVI3ZN 16.
Under the new prize money structure, this year we paid out to seventh place – see below for the top seven place-getters:
- HORSE CARE UNIT PIX 19 (334) – R75 000
- SHIVI3ZN 16 (327) – R25 000
- MAYEN 2045 (326) – R15 000
- PILSUDSKI 9 (325) – R10 000
- JAMIE 3 (320) – R7 500
- SAM 2213 (317) – R3 750
- RICK 1 (317) – R3 750
Organiser Peter Gibson thanked title sponsor, Track & Ball, and supporting sponsors, Gold Circle and TabGold.
“Thank you for your support and we look forward to growing the competition in 2020. From a media perspective, we thank all publications that carried information about the competition, but in particular African Betting Clan and Sporting Post,” he said.
