Some interesting years and happenings
Back in the day, the Milnerton stabled horses caught the train from Milnerton to Cape Town and then took the Southern Suburbs line to Wynberg, when racing at Kenilworth.
Thorium bucked the trend.
He walked from Milnerton to Kenilworth on the morning of the race, duly won the 1949 Met, and then walked back!
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