The good horses somehow find the good trainers and Mike De Kock has had much success and good fortune with the progeny of Kahal. It is early days, but the mature and decisive manner of Festival Of Fire’s record-breaking win spoke volumes of plenty to come.
Mike De Kock holds the aces in Saturday’s Gr3 Joburg Spring F&M Challenge on a PinkDrive day at Turffontein. He has taken the bait of the attractive weight conditions that pitch the 3yo’s against the older horses at favourable weights in this early season WFA contest.
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
