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Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings – 5 April 2015
Able Friend joins Shared Belief at the top of the leaderboard for the second edition of the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2015.
Able Friend joins Shared Belief at the top of the leaderboard for the second edition of the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2015.
Topping the board with a rating of 130 was the Japanese-bred Just A Way (Heart’s Cry – Sibyl). The six-year-old, whose track victories include the Dubai Duty Free and the Gr1 Yasuda Kinen, has recently joined his sire Heart’s Cry at the Shadai Stallion Station’s Hokkaido farm
Able Friend’s effort in the Hong Kong Mile was stunning but it was made possible after Gold-Fun set a true brisk pace. There was plenty of debate on the local front after Dynamic’s time in winning the Premier Trophy was substantially slower than Jet Supreme in the Victress
When I go to the gate and look around me, I see the best jockeys in the world. Doug Whyte, Joao Moreira, Zac Purton – these are top jockeys, they’re superheroes.
On a rain-soaked Sha-Tin track, Karis Teetan steers stand-in ride Able Friend home to a smooth victory in the Gr2 Chairman’s Trophy
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million