On Saturday 6 July the 116th running of Africa’s Greatest Horseracing Event took place at Greyville Racecourse. In the Gr1 Vodacom Durban July, Heavy Metal (Silvano) scored the maximum points for his followers, 25 points for first place plus an added 5 points (total 30 points) for paying over R15 on SAFtote. Beach Beauty (Dynasty) won the Gr1 Jonsson Workwear Garden Province Stakes earning 20 points.
The Gr2 Mercedes-Benz Gold Vase was won by Kolkata (Requiem) scoring 14 points and in the Gr.3 Mango 2200 it was Master Plan (Jet Master) that found the winners enclosure, scoring 9 points. Christo Mentor aka “PAS DE QUOI” wins Vodacom Durban July Stand Alone Prize!
Christo Mentor produce d the right combination with his ONE and ONLY entry in the Charity Turf Challenge competition to score 79 points with his entry “PAS DE QUOI” on Vodacom Durban July Day and walks away with R20 000, congratulations Christo!
The entire Leader Board can now be viewed on the Charity Turf Challenge home page, click on Leader Board and at the bottom of the page open PDF file. The results on July Day has seen “3A Racing – Harri” jump from 9th position last week to the top of the leader board having scored handsomely with Run For It, Do You Remember and Beach Beauty.
Other notable movers having selected VDJ winner Heavy Metal and Garden Province winner Beach Beauty are “FUZZY 1”, Sir’s Crackers”, “Winners Circle 1”, “Late Runner”, “Bloodshoot 2” and “Rennie Reddy”. “Mark Aboud 9” who is in 5th place, scored with Run For It, Do You Remember and Beach Beauty and “punthead 3” remains in the top 10 scoring with Run For It and Beach Beauty. Going into the Gr1 Mercury Sprint on Saturday, 13 July, 8th placed “man u 20” on 171 points is in the box seat as the only entry in the top 10 that has selected What A Winter.
Whilst its valuable points in the bag for the top 10, the competition is definitely not done and dusted as there is still plenty to play for with the last bonus race of the competition, the Gr1 Gold Cup which also features the Gr.1 Champions Cup and the Gr.2 Gold Bracelet on “Super Saturday”, 27 July and judging by the selection of horses that the TOP 50 have in the competition, the 2013 competition is in for a nail biting finish.
On Vodacom Durban July Day there were 5 spot prize draws on Tellytrack. This is a computer generated, random draw from all entrants and not dependent on points earned. Each winner receives a R500 telephone betting deposit kindly sponsored by TAB GOLD “The Intelligent Bet”.
The winners are:
• Kevin M
• Brooklyn
• Sir’s Stars
• Wendzwood
• Boodah 4
Congratulations to the 5 winners!
As and when Charity Turf Challenge horses earn points, we will update the Racing South Africa website and email data-base: www.racingsouthafrica.co.za
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