Earning Those Stripes
With both the Guineas and the Drill Hall Stakes topping the bill on Saturday the Natal season gets off to a flying start.
2nd May 2012
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With both the Guineas and the Drill Hall Stakes topping the bill on Saturday the Natal season gets off to a flying start.
With two non black type feature events taking place at the Vaal on Tuesday racing on sand comes to the fore in midweek. At the weights two runners stand out in the Summer Speedsters Stakes, but one of them has proven herself in top grade company and should take a lot of beating here….
The Highest purse on offer in midweek is that put aside for the winner of the MR92 Handicap over 1000m at the Vaal’s sand track on Tuesday. Just nine go to post….
Will the Golden Slipper form stand up? Ratings for the Gr1 race for 2yo fillies on July day were difficult to arrive at, with Princess Victoria a very easy winner and few of those close up with much previous excellence to speak of.
A dual Grade 1 winner and South Africa’s highest rated racehorse, the Vaughan Marshall trained One Stripe will campaign in a partnership of Hollywood Racing and Rikesh Sewgoolam
A final field of 17 will face the starter at the Hollywoodbets Kenilworth 2000m marker on Saturday 25 January for the 163rd renewal of the R5 million World Sports Betting Gr1 Cape Town Met
Two past winners of the Cape’s premier summer speed clash are in the fifteen strong line-up
