Skye Gilbert Debuts at Scottsville
UK-based apprentice jockey Skye Gilbert makes her racecourse debut at Scottsville this afternoon
1st February 2017
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UK-based apprentice jockey Skye Gilbert makes her racecourse debut at Scottsville this afternoon
“If we just get the horses, we can hold our own with any training community in the country. When the big trainers with the expensive horses give Ashburton’s facilities the thumbs up, it must say something…”
For those fatalists preaching that horseracing is a dying game, some fuel would have been provided by the sponsors at Scottsville, where the Baker & Baker Undertakers Maiden Plate closed the eight race programme.
A dual Group race winner annihilates a Graduation field. Hardly the stuff to get excited about but the background to Gold Onyx’s dramatic return to
It was a memorable day for apprentice jockey Bryan Claassen at Scottsville on 4 September, as he blew the world out of the Jackpot and
Jockey Robbie Fradd and trainer Sean Tarry are developing into a formidable combination on the East Coast and they enjoyed an impressive double at Clairwood on 30 August.
It is eerie to think that there would have been no Siren’s Call, Sound Of Warning, or for that matter Call To Unite, had fate not decreed that Enchanted Cove follow her dam to South Africa, and that Peter de Beyer had the foresight to return Elusive Fort back home from the States as well!
There’s lots more to play for!
