Met Newsflash
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
‘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’
It’s clear that eight incidents of crop excesses is unacceptable for a sport keen to maintain a good public image, and the time appears to have arrived for a review of the crop rules for work riders on the Highveld
