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The Met field was reduced to fifteen with the disappointing withdrawal of one of the dark horses in the race
30th January 2013
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The Met field was reduced to fifteen with the disappointing withdrawal of one of the dark horses in the race
LANCE BENSON: Everybody is entitled to an opinion but the Gold Cup was a wonderful plan come together for two relatively young old men from Cape Town in trainer Dean Kannemeyer and jockey Felix Coetzee.
The chances of an upset result in the 2012 Gr2 Mango Gold Vase looks a real possibility. Piere Strydom and Sean Tarry may bring some sense to the calculations though with the Requiem gelding Kolkata, who looks just about ready to score his 1st stakes win.
The Chairman’s Cup run over 3200m at Kenilworth on Saturday makes another strong case for the urgency of introducing sectional timing after In Writing appeared to catch his 11 rivals all napping and ran out a wide margin winner of the summer’s last Graded event in Cape Town
A man we are privileged to have known as a loyal friend of this great game and of the Sporting Post, a personal mate, and one of South African horseracing’s great characters, Shaheen Shaw, a husband, loving Dad and Grandad, passed away suddenly at the age of 55
The sad reality is that no matter who did what wrong, the Peter saga has been a scar on the SA horseracing landscape for far too long and besides the old favourite of justice delayed, it has lingered lengths ahead of KZN star Royal Victory’s big win in the 2023 renewal of the Highveld showpiece
