Chris Snaith – Started Something Big!
Racing News chatted to the highly respected and much loved horseman Chris Snaith at Snaith Racing’s home base in Phillipi, Cape Town
22nd January 2021
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Racing News chatted to the highly respected and much loved horseman Chris Snaith at Snaith Racing’s home base in Phillipi, Cape Town
The have 7 winners on the board – all prepped and saddled by Chris – after having 31 runners at three meetings of the new season
The blonde wannabee handicapper in the mod tight fitting suit threw the kitchen sink at the Met card – as he generally loves to do on the Cape’s two big days
About four months ago, we got a call from the SPCA to say that they’d an issue with one of the horses they rehomed for us . We drove out to the farm to take a look and the horse looked shocking. My father basically got into physical fight with the owners as we were loading him.
Honours were evenly shared at the first KZN meeting of the new season at Scottsville on 3 August. Summerveld trainer Mark Dixon enjoyed a healthily priced double, while the performance of the afternoon belonged to the Oppenheimer’s Brooks-Club.
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
