Cheyne’s First PE Gold Cup
The Listed PE Gold Cup is the only race in the country contested over 3600m
15th June 2019
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The Listed PE Gold Cup is the only race in the country contested over 3600m
Trainer Tara Laing maintained her vice grip on South Africa’s longest race when she made it five victories in six renewals of the R150 000 Listed Port Elizabeth Gold Cup
A 5yo maiden is amongst the seven runners who will bid to spoil Alan Greeff’s 2017 winner Shady World’s title defence party!
“There aren’t any races long enough for Shady World so he may have to sit it out for the 2018 Gold Cup,” said an elated breeder Syd Birch
The Vodacom Durban July may be a world away from the relative backwaters of the Listed PE Gold Cup. Well R4 100 000 and 909 km to be precise…
Varsfontein’s Carl and Amanda de Vos’ SA champion broodmare Star Of Arcole produced yet another feature winner when Dynasty’s game staying soldier Drill Sargeant won South Africa’s longest race
A notable absentee from today’s R150 000 Listed Port Elizabeth Gold Cup to be run over 3600m at Fairview is Tara Laing’s Silvano gelding Crown Of Gold. The Ingrid and Markus Jooste-owned local champion stayer would have been bidding for his hat-trick of wins in South Africa’s longest race
Gold Cup supplementary entries close on Friday 11 July. Blaze Of Fire is the only PE entry so far but why should Crown Of Gold not be there too?
July jockey stood down again as mystery deepens around extent of injury. But punters will be focussing on the Fairview programme which hosts South Africa’s longest race, a real spectacle!
The official going at Fairview was soft with the penetrometer reading at 28.Tellytrack on-course presenter Gavin Venter, a top former jockey, kept stressing the need for jockeys to ride with restraint.
‘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’
