The Selangor Cup result could well see Mike de Kock rubbing his hands in the exciting anticipation of unleashing a member or two of his current crop of big guns on the Cape Guineas
It is difficult looking past the top four, with Broadway Trip looking to edge out Ancestry and Undercover Agent. Sean Tarry has always rated Captain And Master – we would be tempting fate to disregard him…
Saturday’s Gr2 Selangor Cup is a golden highway to the Cape Guineas and the classic beyond. The winners and placed horses over the years have inevitably gone on to greater things
The Gr2 Selangor Cup hosts unbeaten Gauteng visitor Broadway Trip, while many dreams hinge on reality with the running of the R2,5 milliion Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes
Saturday’s Selangor Cup threw the proverbial cat amongst the Cape Guineas pigeons as trainer Glen Kotzen celebrated a scintillating success with the Trippi colt Gold Standard
Always a pointer to the Cape Guineas, the Gr2 Selangor Cup is another one of those races that Joey Ramsden has made his own
Selangor Cup and Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes will get the summer crowds out
The failure of the Mike De Kock raider Muwaary in the Gr2 Selangor Cup clouded the Cape Guineas picture, but threw up a potential candidate for higher honours at the same time
Mike De Kock looks set to get his Summer Of Champions campaign up and running at Kenilworth on Saturday. The exciting O’reilly colt Muwaary can confirm his recent Graham Beck Stakes win against some equally progressive local hopes
Who can recall when last such genuine heartfelt horseracing related emotion was felt on a scale witnessed at Kenilworth on Saturday? The outstanding Dynasty colt Act Of War had just nominated himself as a likely Cape Guineas favourite with a scintillating victory in the R400 000 Gr2 Selangor Cup but his big moment was simply overshadowed by the great jockey on his back
Brett Crawford trained De Kock won the R300 000 Gr2 Selangor Cup at Kenilworth, and Dynasty dominated the first four past the post – a rare feat.
‘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’
