Godolphin’s Charlie Appleby-trained Poetic Charm towers over her fellow fillies and mares in this evening’s $250,000 Gr2 Balanchine and looks to emulate her overpowering four-length local debut in the Cape Verdi (Gr2) over 1600m last month.
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
