Ridgemont Fox Gets Her Gr1
It’s been quite a long hot summer for the Brett Crawford Racing Team, but the cooling champagne breeze arrived in under a minute of race action for the power players
31st January 2021
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It’s been quite a long hot summer for the Brett Crawford Racing Team, but the cooling champagne breeze arrived in under a minute of race action for the power players
A gelding with a fairytale back story and a turn of foot to launch rockets, Candice Bass-Robinson’s 2019 Cape Merchants winner Russet Air overshadowed the big guns
Equus champion sprinter Kasimir defends his Gr1 Cape Flying Championship title at Kenilworth on Sun Met day Saturday
Four winners is probably a quiet Met day by Justin Snaith’s standards
Soldier sprinter Sergeant Hardy breaks new ground with his first Gr1 win
Sean Tarry speed star Trip To Heaven looks the key to the outcome of the Cape Flyiing Championship on Sun Met Day
Champion racemare Carry On Alice showed her courage and blue chip ability when withstanding a towering late challenge from her stablemate Trip To Heaven
The duel for speed supremacy in the 2016/17 Cape Summer Of Champions reaches a climax at Kenilworth on Saturday
The runners to contest the four Gr1’s on the 13 race programme on Africa’s richest ever raceday have been unveiled
Brett Crawford’s game speedster Gulf Storm came of age in style at Kenilworth on Saturday, when sneaking home in a thrilling finish to the R1 million Gr1 Cape Flying Championship to give regular pilot Corne Orffer his first Gr1 win
‘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
