Past winners include champions such as Northern Dancer, Seattle Slew and Sunday Silence, as well as the highly successful sires Count Fleet Pleasant Colony and Unbridled, but is the Kentucky Derby a reliable pointer for success at stud?
Champion jockey Piere Strydom’s old-fashioned loyalty may have cost him at times in his illustrious career in the saddle, but Saturday was not to be one of those days!
Harry’s Son was to be Haradasun’s first Gr1 winner when clinching the Premier’s Champion Stakes last season
The tracking of the talented Tarry horse was probably a well considered tactical move by Strydom but things got really tight in the final 300m as Harry’s Son climbed all over them with nowhere to go
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
