A Jet Powered Icebreaker
South Africa’s highest priced yearling with a price tag of R4 million back in 2010, the beautifully bred Divine Jet endured an injury interrupted track career
22nd April 2019
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South Africa’s highest priced yearling with a price tag of R4 million back in 2010, the beautifully bred Divine Jet endured an injury interrupted track career
The In Full Flight Handicap is the supporting feature on the Clairwood Sunday programme. With fourteen capable speedsters going head to head over the 1100m, the race looks wide open with Dean Kannemeyer’s Divine Jet looking overdue to score his fifth win.
The R1 million Betting World Gr1 Cape Flying Championship is the blue riband of the Cape’s summer of speed. The honour roll of the race speaks of champions and many have gone on to be household names and sires. Whether such an equine treasure is buried in the 2014 vintage remains to be seen. What we do know though is that whoever gets to lift the trophy will know that they have been in a bruising battle of wits and raw ability.
The quality sprint feature sees the return to action of Champion Stakes winner Jackson, who is en route to a date with destiny in the 2014 J&B Met.
The R350 000 Gr2 Drill Hall Stakes has attracted a field of fifteen runners, many of whom are using this event as their stepping stone to other things.
A race for the connoisseur, this level weights contest for 3yo colts is usually won by a top sort.
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
Outstanding colt Nepotism (Brutal) scored one of the most remarkable Gr1 wins by a 2YO on an Australian racetrack in recent memory
