Futura’s Sixth First Crop Stakes Winner
After a drubbing at the hands of the Cape big guns a week earlier, the Summerveld locals celebrated a 50% feature strike-rate at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Sunday
9th May 2021
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After a drubbing at the hands of the Cape big guns a week earlier, the Summerveld locals celebrated a 50% feature strike-rate at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Sunday
South Africa’s premier national championships of the turf only officially start this Friday at Greyville, but the KZN trainers showed their mettle in the Scottsville curtain-raiser day by lifting three of the four features on offer
The Poinsettia heads a low-key jackpot of features offered at Scottsville today, where the official going is posted as ”good to soft’, despite no rain or irrigation in the past 7 days
The Milnerton-based pair have always enjoyed great success at Scottsville and they would have been thrilled with the return to winning form of their promising Gr1 winner
At 28 years young, ‘Turbo Takkies’ Marie Galante is alive and well and as feisty as ever at her Varsfontein home in the Western Cape. We celebrate one of SA’s speediest fillies by chatting to those who know her best.
Dean Kannemeyer has forged a powerful winning partnership with his major patron Khaya Stables over the years and he saddled yet another feature winner in the yellow and black
Paarl-based trainer Glen Kotzen made it two feature winners on the afternoon when the versatile Jet Master mare Jet Belle registered a second R150 000 Gr3 Poinsettia Stakes victory in a row when scoring an easy win at Scottsville on Sunday
Glen Kotzen’s Jet Master filly opens KZN account in fine style and could be a force to be reckoned with in champions season
The visiting Cape trainers have taken KZN by storm and ten of the fourteen runners in Sunday’s R150 000 Gr3 Poinsettia Stakes at Clairwood are genuine out–of–towners.
We have never been short of talent in the ranks of the sprinting females & the Gr3 Poinsettia Stakes underlines the strength of this sector.
‘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’
