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Last year’s event produced a really special sort and the Gr3 Champion Juvenile Cup to be run at Fairview on Monday may well spawn something rather unique once again.
21st July 2012
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Last year’s event produced a really special sort and the Gr3 Champion Juvenile Cup to be run at Fairview on Monday may well spawn something rather unique once again.
The handicapper has crunched the numbers and done the admin that indicates that Jackson is a justified first choice to record win number five.
Croc Valley swooped from the tail of the field to win her first black type, topping off a solid days racing for Mike Bass who saddled 3 winners. Here’s a direct link to the Bass website …
Reigning horse-of-the-year Igugu will be a warm favourite to take Cape Town by storm when she turns out for the J&B Met on Saturday
Variety Club is well in at the weights in the Cape Derby, but the dark horse of the race is Jackson.
Seven juvenile colts and four fillies make up the field for the first black type race for their age. Assessing their relative merit at this time of the season is hazardous to say the least.
A field of 18, with 2kg separating the top weights from those at the bottom contest this 2800m conditions race
Covenant, a filly with a pedigree to die for, her value rockets with every return visit to the winner’s enclosure and the 4yo returned to winning ways at Kenilworth.
Queen’s Command showed terrific tenacity to run out a hard fought winner of the Flamboyant Stakes. The finish was something more akin to a handicap than a conditions event.
Bookmakers were treated to a Festive season present when 50/1 outsider Orbit War came from well off the pace to spring a surprise in the Christmas Handicap over 1600m at Clairwood on Monday.
Blake is turning into a long distance performer of considerable talent at the age of five and on Saturday he recorded his second Feature race success in a row when winning the Cape Summer Stayers Handicap over 2500m on the Kenilworth new course.
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
