Sun Met Day Classics
Can Tap O’Noth follow in the hoofprints of Jay Peg and Capetown Noir?
4th January 2018
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Can Tap O’Noth follow in the hoofprints of Jay Peg and Capetown Noir?
The runners to contest the four Gr1’s on the 13 race programme on Africa’s richest ever raceday have been unveiled
Our ‘man on the mic’, Rouvaun Smit, tells us about his trip to the 2016 Investec Derby Festival
Mike Azzie-trained Rabada was withdrawn ‘injured near hind’ at 08h06 on Friday from the Gr1 Investec Cape Derby to be run at Kenilworth on Saturday
The Gauteng raiders hold a strong hand in Saturday’s R1 million Gr1 Investec Cape Derby and Justin Snaith appears to hold the only ace of retaining the coveted silverware in the Cape
It doesn’t get much better that two top yards clashing in one of South Africa’s great classic races. It is the clash of the unbeaten lightly-raced Aussie versus the established local star going for seven in a row. Sound like a one-sided affair? Don’t be fooled…
It is almost surreal to think that I am going to be part of one of the biggest race meetings in the world, that up to now I’ve only been able to watch on TV
Betting for the two Epsom classics this week, the Investec Derby and the Oaks, is dominated by some of the bluest blooded thoroughbreds in the world.
The 2014 J&B race meeting was a triumph for locally bred stallions. All three of the day’s Gr1 winners were sired by SA bred stallions.
Capetown Noir achieved the unique Guineas and Derby double when winning Saturday’s Gr1 Investec Cape Derby at Kenilworth
Jackson may be the best 3yo in South Africa after he lived up to a ton of pre-race hype and ran out the fluent winner of the Investec Cape Derby
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
