The four-year-old is likely to wear blinkers for the first time on July 5 when Kannemeyer will be bidding for his third July win. The Milnerton trainer is adamant that not too much should be read into the horse’s defeat in the Rising Sun Gold Challenge
“We haven’t had the answers we were hoping for to launch an overseas campaign via the USA and while a very slim hope exists that we will hear of an alternative by Monday, we will be running him in the July.”
The Cape stars came out tops in the interprovincial needle stakes following last weekend’s Greyville thriller and the power game now moves to Clairwood this Saturday for the next round. The R1 million Gr1 Gold Challenge is a high quality mile contest and trainer Geoff Woodruff will be keen to exact revenge after a rough ride.
Drill Hall Stakes loses sparkle after late withdrawal of Master Of My Fate through injury. It’s now up to stablemate Beach Beauty to take on Capetown Noir from a wide draw.
South Africa’s top miler, Capetown Noir, adds plenty of needle to the H F Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes at Turffontein on Saturday.
Champion miler takes delay in his stride and arrives safely in Johannesburg ahead of Saturday’s big race at Turffontein
There will be some intriguing outside opposition for the local milers in the Gr1 Horse Chestnut Stakes to be run at Turffontein at the end of March
Eighteen of South Africa’s finest line up at the Kenilworth 2000m start in Saturday’s R 2,5 million J&B Gr1 Met in what promises to be a humdinger of a race. It is an open contest but L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winner Capetown Noir looks set to finally slay the stamina ghost that has lurked in the shadows throughout his career.
The153rd renewal of the L’Ormarins Gr1 Queen’s Plate is going to be a cracker!
The WFA Green Point Stakes looks a straight shootout between Beach Beauty and local champion Capetown Noir
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
