Having The Last Laugh!
Bezanova may well have forgotten where the winner’s enclosure was after his long drought but came back to his best in style at Turffontein on Sunday
Bezanova may well have forgotten where the winner’s enclosure was after his long drought but came back to his best in style at Turffontein on Sunday
Sunday’s rescheduled Turffontein feature race is named in honour of the former Maine Chance Farms based stallion Victory Moon, who died suddenly in 2009
The chance of a one-way ticket into the Gr1 Sansui Summer Cup later this month awaits the winner of Sunday’s Gr2 Victory Moon Stakes
Seasoned trainer Geoff Woodruff teamed up with young apprentice Callan Murray and Deo Juvente to win the Gr2 Victory Moon Stakes
The Gr2 Victory Moon Stakes is the traditional last chance saloon for Sansui Summer Cup hopefuls. With a few marginals in no-man’s land, the Turffontein feature today is bound to be a hotly contested affair
The Turffontein-based trainer can do little wrong at the moment. He has his sights set on the Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes, the Dingaans and the Sansui Summer Cup. Sort of puts some of his big talking colleagues’ performance into perspective, doesn’t it?
Sean confirmed that Tiger’s Retreat has ‘had his niggles’ when explaining away the statistics which show that the gelding has had only three runs since his big win here last season. He will be ridden again by the jockey who rode such a cracker on him last year
The Gr2 Viictory Moon Stakes on Friday is the last chance saloon for a few Sansui Summer Cup hopefuls.
The wheel turns in the great leveller that is horseracing! The major yards took a back seat in Friday evening’s R300 000 Gr2 Victory Moon Stakes with a shock winner cementing his Summer Cup claims
A strong entry of 43 runners nominated for the Gr2 Victory Moon Stakes to be run over 1800m at Turffontein on Friday 16 November.
Perana could not unfairly be described as an enigmatic sort and he has not won a race for precisely one year since he gave a memorable display to win the Victory Moon Stakes at Turffontein, but a very good latest effort suggests he could be on the comeback trail.
Charl Pretorius pokes a bit of fun as we brace ourselves for a rollercoaster ride through the absurd, the outrageous, and the downright unbelievable in South African horse racing