SA’s Export Hopes
If I tried to match the successes that the ERC has had in my own field of speciality, I’d have had to spend 20 million US dollars.
9th July 2014
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If I tried to match the successes that the ERC has had in my own field of speciality, I’d have had to spend 20 million US dollars.
There are two schools of thought about what transpired over the last 200m of the July and the outcome of the objection. I have been asked for my view and let me start by saying that I don’t envy the Stipendiary Stewards
The final total net Pick 6 pool including the R3-million carryover was R13,766,536 – a massive 207% increase on a year ago. The pool excluding the carryover was R10.8 million, which was R6.3 million or 140% more than in 2013
“Passing the post I was furious because I felt I should have won and that, had things all gone smoothly, I would have won by half a length or a length. I rode to where the officials were and said I was objecting. I was told where I should go but, before I got to the stewards’ office, I heard the announcement that I had objected.”
Jockey fined for dissent to starter while trainer’s behaviour in and around Stipes boardroom the subject of an enquiry
“Most of our horses are sore after this meeting, they’re very lame. In all my years in racing I haven’t ever had so many runners return so lame after a race day. It was a shock, I’ve seen some of mine lame before, but not to this degree.”
If fashion and dressing up is not really your game, then forget about the Big Screen and go for the BIG WIN. More than R115 million is expected to be bet on Durban July Day today with a myriad of bet options open to punters
His first July win came aboard London News in 1996, and he also won on Trademark and then Pomodoro just two years ago
SA Champion trainer Mike de Kock has only one runner in today’s Gr1 Vodacom Durban July but that could be good enough to give him a fifth victory in the great race
‘S’manga’s absence is a blow but I have two top guys in mind’
Trainer dealt a double body blow on the eve of his historic hat-trick bid to win Saturday’s Vodacom Durban July with both big-race jockeys in the wars
‘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’
It’s clear that eight incidents of crop excesses is unacceptable for a sport keen to maintain a good public image, and the time appears to have arrived for a review of the crop rules for work riders on the Highveld
