The Gr1 SA Fillies Sprint at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on 5 June is the medium term plan for Futura’s smart daughter Sweet Future who toyed with her opposition as she made full use of her weight advantage to win Saturday’s Listed Bauhinia Handicap
Such was the tight nature of the tussle between the top two, commentator Alistair Cohen put his proverbial on the line by calling a dead-heat
Hollywood sponsored trainer Paul Matchett bounced back in style with a feature treble at Turffontein on Saturday
Her trainer admits to not knowing quite how good she is, but the Gr1 SA Fillies Sprint is the target for impressive Bauhinia Handicap winner Covered In Snow
The Listed Bauhinia Handicap represents the toughest hurdle for Turffontein Pick 6 punters today with a capacity field of sixteen bumping heads over the 1000m
Trainer Mike Azzie and jockey Karl Zechner maintained their feature winning streak at Turffontein on Saturday as the Var mare Easy Game ran on best to secure her first stakes win
With a large field of fifteen fillies and mares, the pace for the Bauhinia sprint to be run over 1000m at Turffontein on Saturday should be fast and furious from the start
The race was an unhappy one for the connections of the weak 7 to 2 favourite Winter Passion. She ran stone last after playing up at the start, being hampered, incurred a mouth injury, had her starting certificate withdrawn and her jockey Donovan Mansour will face an inquiry after the starter was not happy with his conduct either
Miss October winner of the Gr3 Tommy Hotspur Handicap over Saturday’s course and distance last time out, looks a very serious runner for the Listed Bauhinia Handicap at Turffontein on Saturday
The white streak of lightning La Volta lit the night sky at Turffontein last Tuesday evening, when she skated clear to win the Bauhinia Handicap (L)
‘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’
