General Franco Could Travel To PE

The Cape raiders have dominated the Algoa Cup, or PE July as it is popularly known, for a decade and the 2019 renewal to be run at Fairview on Sunday 27 October sees a powerful entry from the Mother City

Tabnews reports that Tap O’ Noth, winner of the 2017 Gr1 Cape Guineas, is among the 29 entries for this year’s Listed Algoa Cup over 2000m on the Fairview turf track on Sunday 27 October.

Tap O’Noth (Pic – Chase Liebenberg Photography)

As expected, trainers from the Western Cape have flocked to nominated runners for this R350 000 race, including Justin Snaith, Candice Bass-Robinson, Brett Crawford, Glen Kotzen, Andre Nel, and Vaughan Marshall, who trains Tap O’ Noth.

Tap O’ Noth has not raced since contesting the Sun Met in January but he has outstanding form.

Having placed in the Daily News 2000 and the Champions Cup, both Grade 1 events, he has been allotted a massive weight of 68kg and that is likely to diminish his chances of running.

Snaith, who won the race last year with Magnificent Seven, has nominated Elusive Silva, Platinum Prince and Knights Templar, Bass-Robinson has Majestic Mozart and Celestial Prince, while Crawford has entered last year’s East Cape Derby winner American Landing, stayer Gimme One Night, Magic Mike and Vforvictory.

Kotzen has Herodotus and Cat Daddy but Glen is one of three members of the family to have entered runners. Bother Nathan has nominated Tommy Grand while Sharon, who is based in Port Elizabeth, has Just Chaos and Seeking Wisdom.

There is also a strong entry from Port Elizabeth-based trainers who would like nothing better than to wrest this title from the raiders.

0	$Mangrove		(6G)	0	96	A	Yvette Bremner
17	Tap O’ Noth		(5G)	68	120	BA	Vaughan Marshall
10	Elusive Silva		(7G)	63.5	111	A	Justin Snaith
27	Herodotus		(4G)	63	112	A	Glen Kotzen
18	Majestic Mozart		(4G)	62.5	111	AT	Candice Bass-Robinson
7	Meryl		(5M)	60	104	AT	Alan Greeff
20	Run Red		(5G)	60	104	A	Andre Nel
24	Gimme One Night		(6G)	59.5	103	A	Brett Crawford
21	Platinum Prince		(6G)	59.5	103	A	Justin Snaith
4	Crome Yellow		(5G)	57	98	A	Andre Nel
19	American Landing		(5G)	56.5	97	ATM	Brett Crawford
13	Knights Templar	Accepted	(4G)	55.5	97	A	Justin Snaith
9	Cat Daddy		(4G)	54	94	A	Glen Kotzen
8	Story Of My Life		(6G)	53	90	AT	Gavin Smith
15	Tommy Grand		(5G)	53	90	A	Nathan Kotzen
23	Celestial Prince		(4G)	52	90	BA	Candice Bass-Robinson
1	Just Chaos		(4F)	52	90	BA	Sharon B Kotzen
6	Seeking Wisdom		(5M)	52	88	A	Sharon B Kotzen
11	Frikkie		(8G)	51.5	87	XAT	Jacques Strydom
5	Onesie		(6M)	51	86	BA	Jacques Strydom
26	Magic Mike		(4G)	50.5	87	A	Brett Crawford
28	Evolver		(5G)	50.5	85	BA	Gavin Smith
3	Ollivander		(6G)	50.5	85	BA	Tara Laing
22	In A Perfect World		(4G)	49	84	BAT	Alan Greeff
12	Jay’s Hawk		(4G)	47	80	A	Yvette Bremner
2	Vforvictory		(4C)	43.5	73	BA	Brett Crawford
25	Victory March		(4C)	43.5	73	A	Emmanuel Kaknis
16	Tom ‘n Jerry		(4G)	41.5	69	BA	Gavin Smith
14	Captain’s Vista		(7G)	38	60	AT	Emmanuel Kaknis
(29)

This meeting is a double header as racing will take place on the Polytrack on Friday 25 October which sees the running of the Listed Racing Association Stakes over 1600m.

Many top horses have one this, including Bold Silvano, who went on to race overseas and has gone on to produce many winners at stud.

Topping the list of entries is yet another runner from the Marshall yard and that is Cane Lime ‘N Soda, an impressive winner in a strong handicap against older horses at Durbanville last Saturday.

Newsmaker General Franco – interesting entry (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)

Snaith has nominated a son of Frankel, General Franco, who has been disappointing following after an impressive debut win.

Supplementary entries close at 9am on Thursday 10 October and final declarations must be in by 10am on Monday 21 October.