
Classic Kannemeyer!
Capetown Noir reaffirmed the Kannemeyer love affair with the Gr1 Cape Guineas with a sizzling win in the classic at Kenilworth on Saturday
Capetown Noir reaffirmed the Kannemeyer love affair with the Gr1 Cape Guineas with a sizzling win in the classic at Kenilworth on Saturday
The dramatic withdrawal of The Hangman looks to have reduced the Cape’s 3yo classic into a straight Kannemeyer-Ramsden duel.History shows that only the best win this prized classic, and there is little logical favour between the three top 3yo’s this year. It should be a terrific race.
An outstanding bunch of 3yo’s is set to do battle in next Saturday’s R1 million Gr1 Cape Premier Yearling Sales Guineas at Kenilworth
South African horseracing falls under the Asian Racing Federation and the Graded status of races is decided by the Asian Pattern Committee (APC)
Explained – the circumstances behind the decision by the connections of the dual Grade 1- winning sophomore One Stripe to ‘bypass’ the R1,5 million SplashOut Gr1 Cape Derby on 22 February in favour of a likely final run on South African soil in the non-black type Big Cap
With the Aga Khan’s breeding and racing programme very much geared towards the classics, it can be argued that South Africa, where speed, rather than stamina is the hallmark of its racing programme, has failed to capitalise on the excellence of especially its female families
Rob Haswell tells that he has had horses trained by Nathan Kotzen for more than twenty years and pulls us up for our Umthombothi Stakes ‘flop’