A Force To Be Reckoned With!
Joey Ramsden’s Western Winter gelding Brutal Force, aka ‘Fatty’, continued his love affair with the Turffontein track on Saturday
17th April 2017
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Joey Ramsden’s Western Winter gelding Brutal Force, aka ‘Fatty’, continued his love affair with the Turffontein track on Saturday
I am not too disappointed with The Conglomerate and won’t be jumping off a bridge quite yet!
Horses are like paintings: people will only pay what they think they are worth and that was very much the case a couple of weeks ago
Joey Ramsden’s fiercely competitive streak and his willingness to brave the trading of blows in the big league paid handsome dividends at Turffontein on Saturday when the superb chestnut hulk of Brutal Force danced across the Turffontein 1160m to score a sensational R450 000 Gr2 Merchants victory.
There is just no stopping Joey Ramsden and his top owners Ingrid and Markus Jooste and the combination were to the fore in yet another Cape feature after a glorious and memorable summer
The full brother to Red Ray was bought by Markus Jooste for R1.5 million at last year’s CTS Premier Yearling Sale and was then put into the Durbanville Ready To Run Sale in order to qualify him for the R2 million Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes. Watch him at 12h35 today on Tellytrack (Dstv 239)
Ready To Run sales nowadays are linked to very rich races, so the trick is to qualify a horse by sending it through the ring.
It is no mean feat to win at feature level from 1400m to 2400m, but My Best Shot proved equal to the task and set himself up for East Cape Horse Of The Year honours – and maybe a Hollywoodbets Durban July supplementary entry?
An investigation into betting patterns, both locally and internationally, has been launched by the National Horseracing Authority
The highly anticipated first race on the revamped Hollywoodbets Greyville polytrack on Wednesday was well received by stakeholders, but was not without its drama
Cape lightweight Morne Winnaar has come a long way since being plucked from near ignominy by former Cape champion trainer Joey Ramsden over twenty years ago
