23rd December 2019
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Mike de Kock’s Australia—bound Hawwaam is set to shorten dramatically in the betting for the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate and the Sun Met after a facile first victory in the Cape at Kenilworth on Saturday
The presence of Mike de Kock’s champion Hawwaam in the Gr2 Premier Trophy will get the crowds out at Kenilworth
In a field that included six Sun Met entries, Corne Orffer took Milton out to set the fractions with only Keagan de Melo and Donovan Dillon deciding to stay in touch
A big showing on Saturday could book his place in the big race
‘It’s been a rough week for South African horseracing. This is one for the small man in the game…’
The Premier Trophy run at Kenilworth today has not historically proven to be a major L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate or Met pointer.
Mike de Kock has sidestepped the Cape Guineas with his smart 3yo Bold Rex, opting rather to take on what looks to be a very beatable bunch of his elders in the Premier Trophy
There was a measure of veiled irony in the reality that a horse named Paterfamilias – latin for ‘father of the family’ – won on the occasion of a watershed announcement by the Bass family at Kenilworth on Saturday
The enigmatic class act King Of Pain shares his charismatic personality and boyish charm with his erudite conditioner Joey Ramsden. The pair have seen a few battles won and lost over the years…
‘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’
