Bon Voyage, Katak!
Cape Winter Series star Katak has joined Listed Umngeni Handicap winner Celtic Voyager in quarantine en route to an exciting new racing career in Singapore
17th September 2020
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Cape Winter Series star Katak has joined Listed Umngeni Handicap winner Celtic Voyager in quarantine en route to an exciting new racing career in Singapore
‘The plan is to keep Katak here, with Piet, for the new season’s Green Point Stakes, the Queen’s Plate and the 2021 Sun Met, after which he will be exported for overseas racing’
The undoubted fairytale horse of the SA racing season, Katak’s victory was as popular, and probably a lot more emotional for many, as fellow Capetonian Belgarion’s superb score in the Vodacom Durban July twenty four hours earlier
The Potala Pace colt Katak will attempt to keep his unbeaten record intact at Kenilworth today
Piet Steyn’s exciting Potala Palace colt Katak will bid for the R200 000 Cape Winter Series bonus
The Handicappers were of the view that 3rd placed SILVER HOST made for the most suitable line horse.
The unfolding Katak fairytale highlighted a superb afternoon of racing at Kenilworth on Tuesday
Katak is thought by his veteran trainer and internationally experienced jockey to possibly be one of the best horses in the country
After 40 years the veteran trainer bemoans the state of the game
With 21 wins in 26 starts Hawaii was thoroughly tested for speed, stamina, character, toughness, soundness and durability in two hemispheres and two continents
In the run for home Royal Victory, having his first run over 2000m, built up from rear of midfield as he picked them off one by one and had Son Of Raj and Safe Passage firmly in his sights at the 200m
