Life After Greeff?
Since the return to Alan Greeff’s Halo Stable duties from injury of Greg Cheyne, Andrew Fortune has had to find other ‘employment’
8th September 2016
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Since the return to Alan Greeff’s Halo Stable duties from injury of Greg Cheyne, Andrew Fortune has had to find other ‘employment’
Greg Cheyne made it a cracking winning quartet at his first local meeting in eight months while trainer Justin Snaith celebrated a terrific top-liner Jet Master trifecta
The ‘unfashionably bred’ filly that Gill Drier picked out but that nobody really wanted at sale is sure setting the tracks alight
Andrew Fortune won his second Fairview Friday feature in seven days when he was seen at his top-class best again to get O Tamara home in the R150 000 Listed Lady’s Slipper
Alan Greeff has another exciting 2yo on his hands and the very aptly named Tiger Ridge colt Oomph buried his opposition in a matter of strides with an impressive turn of foot to win the Listed East Cape Nursery
Hong Kong based owner Edmond Siu enjoyed a great double at Fairview on Friday with the lightly raced Silvano colt Nottinghamshire winning the R75 000 Racing Association Plate
The Tara Laing trained Trippi gelding Sir Duke was crowned East Cape Horse Of The Year at a glittering function held at Fairview Racecourse on Saturday evening
Alan Greeff’s impressive 2yo colt Juan Two Three rounded off a weekend feature double for Avontuur’s super sire Var when he ran out a facile winner of the R150 000 Listed Dahlia Plate
There can be few more game and talented fillies around than the Milkwood Stud bred and owned Yoshie, who scored a smooth victory in the R150 000 Listed Lady’s Pendant run over the turf 1200m at Fairview on Friday
Greeff enjoyed a red-letter day with grand total of 4 winners (Dancinginthedesert under Charles Ndlovu dead-heated with Redsailinthesunset to win the seventh race), while Richard Fourie and Justin Snaith enjoyed a double. Grant Van Niekerk also rode two winners.
As the sun sets on the final local meeting of the 2013/14 season, trainer Alan Greeff celebrated his eighth PE champion trainer title and he certainly has come a long way since his first Gr1 win in the Gold Cup 13 years ago…
Charl Pretorius writes in his Off The Record column on the 4Racing website that owners, trainers and racing fans are gravely concerned about the state of our industry
There has been a precipitous decline of betting on the Totalisator which gives cause for concern for the horseracing industry
