
Farnan Wears Golden Slipper
Not A Single Doubt son reigns supreme under Hugh Bowman as Gai Waterhouse grabs seventh Slipper
Not A Single Doubt son reigns supreme under Hugh Bowman as Gai Waterhouse grabs seventh Slipper
The Mick Price-trained colts Extreme Choice and Flying Artie have drawn ideally in barriers 7 and 5 respectively, further tightening their stranglehold on the market
Shrewd money during the week saw the Nutfield Stud-bred Chestnuts N Pearls shorten on the betting boards from 25-1 to 7-1 and the confidence was to prove spot on as she reversed the Allan Robertson Championship form with Princess Royal
Cape trainer Glen Kotzen has returned to the well with a Gr1 winning family and looks to repeat his 2011 success in Saturday’s R600 000 Gr1 Golden Slipper
The least fancied runner in the field of fourteen was still some way back at the 300m marker and looked to have no chance of getting to the leaders. But in an emotional race for the Marwing brothers, Weichong started asking Bilateral for an effort and she responded like a missile, taking off down the inside rail to catch the favourite Alboran Sea in the final strides
It’s a draw between favourites winning and long priced fillies coming home in the last ten years of Golden Slippers
The running of the R500 000 Gr1 Durban Golden Slipper at Greyville on Saturday had trainer Mike De Kock in various stages of elation and aggravation
Princess Victoria must have assured herself of the champion 2yo filly award with the memorable success in the Durban Golden Slipper. While champion 2yo’s are only rarely champion 3yo’s there is no reason to believe at this stage that she won’t enjoy another excellent campaign next term
The official handicapper still hasn’t published any 2yo ratings (what a disgrace!), which means that punters are on their own when trying to figure who the best of the bunch is in the two 2yo Gr1 races on July day
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’