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Glen Kotzen’s champion filly Princess Victoria is the new generation successor to many great horses to campaign in the famed red,white and black Jaffee silks
23rd May 2012
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Glen Kotzen’s champion filly Princess Victoria is the new generation successor to many great horses to campaign in the famed red,white and black Jaffee silks
Equus Champion Filly Princess Victoria has trained on into something very special. She won the Gr3 Poinsettia Stakes in a canter
LANCE BENSON: The curtain comes down on another tumultuous and testing year. While much has changed, one wonders if we really are any better off than we were twelve months.
Silver Flyer may have upped his game by a notch or two since being fitted with blinkers and can follow up on his impressive recent display in the Gr2 Dingaans by winning the Cape Guineas.
ROBYN LOUW: Saturday promises to be a heart-stopper. Kenilworth hosts no less than three graded races and each one is more exciting than the last.
Princess Victoria has been unstoppable virtually all year, and remains undefeated after recording her sixth straight win and third Gr 1 success in the Avontuur Estate Fillies Guineas.
Many things can go wrong – but they will surely need to go seriously awry for Princess Victoria not to win the Avontuur Estate Cape Fillies Guineas over 1600m at Kenilworth on Saturday.
It is one of racing’s many truisms that the best 2yo’s very often don’t make the best 3yo’s. However, the signs are at least highly promising that last season’s champion juvenile filly Princess Victoria has gone the right way.
ROBYN LOUW: Last Thursday afternoon found me on a plane to Joburg for the Equus Awards. Much like dentist visits, I find air travel a bit of an evil, necessary though it might be.
Princess Victoria must have assured herself of the champion 2yo filly award with the memorable success in the Durban Golden Slipper. While champion 2yo’s are only rarely champion 3yo’s there is no reason to believe at this stage that she won’t enjoy another excellent campaign next term
The 2011 Vodacom Durban July turned into a celebration for Mike De kock and Anthony Delpech for the second year running. Their star filly Igugu silenced her detractors and left a trail of broken dreams and dented egos in her wake…
SA horseracing needs strong leadership – today. Otherwise we are doomed. Stakeholders don’t need this kind of circus!
A former Bloemfontein champion trainer, Michael McLachlan was a popular character in the halcyon days of horseracing and now finds himself in dire need
