Eye On The Ball
The only 3yo in the field, the Curved Ball gelding Lets Play Ball played himself into contention for the R50 000 World Sports Betting East Cape Poly Challenge consolation bonus
12th April 2019
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The only 3yo in the field, the Curved Ball gelding Lets Play Ball played himself into contention for the R50 000 World Sports Betting East Cape Poly Challenge consolation bonus
Klawervlei’s beautifully bred young sire Curved Ball got off the mark at the Vaal on Thursday afternoon, producing an eyecatching first winner
Friday, 25 September 2015 brought the news that champion sire Zabeel had died at his Cambridge Stud home at the age of 29. However, with the likes of grandson, Lonhro, and a plethora of high class potential sire sons, it seems a sure bet that the final chapter in the Zabeel legend has not yet been penned.
With a proliferation of new stallions in the SA sire ranks, Sarah Whitelaw notes that the KZN arsenal is looking particularly promising.
Curved Ball is the only son of outstanding Australian stallion Fastnet Rock (Danehill) at stud in South Africa.
With feature races now coming thick and fast in both the Western Cape and Gauteng, plate races are the order of the day in midweek. Of particular interest at Kenilworth is progress event over 1400m where the highest rated of the eight runners is the 2009 Dingaans winner Curved Ball….
A man we are privileged to have known as a loyal friend of this great game and of the Sporting Post, a personal mate, and one of South African horseracing’s great characters, Shaheen Shaw, a husband, loving Dad and Grandad, passed away suddenly at the age of 55
The sad reality is that no matter who did what wrong, the Peter saga has been a scar on the SA horseracing landscape for far too long and besides the old favourite of justice delayed, it has lingered lengths ahead of KZN star Royal Victory’s big win in the 2023 renewal of the Highveld showpiece
