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Franco – Justin Lost For Words
“I have been trying to prove the handicappers right, doing everything I can and using all my skill to build the horse up so that he could compete in a race like this but giving him 102 for a maiden…”
“I have been trying to prove the handicappers right, doing everything I can and using all my skill to build the horse up so that he could compete in a race like this but giving him 102 for a maiden…”
Punters took a few body blows early on in both regional Bipot bets on Saturday, with the red hot odds-on favourite General Franco running a dismal last in the Kenilworth opener.
Today’s Kenilworth eight-race card on the summer course will play second fiddle to the Greyville action up the East Coast but the probable final run as a 2yo by the exciting odds-on shot General Franco, will keep the interest focussed
The R4 million 2018 CTS Premier Yearling Sale chart topper General Franco, who won so smartly on debut in April, will make his reappearance
While General Franco arrived on the racing scene in style, we were reminded how dangerously our jockeys live every day
Likely to be one of the most interesting horses racing this week, the 2018 CTS Premier Yearling Sale chart topper General Franco makes his debut at Kenilworth today
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million