The drama at the start will take some of the shine off Majmu’s sensational victory. But the grey is a serious racehorse and her champion trainer suggests that she is good enough to win a Gr1 overseas. But the J&B Met could be first…
Runners in the Fillies Guineas are by sires whose progeny include three previous winners of the race, and a staggering total of over 470 stakes winners. Safe to say, the winner of the 2014 Avontuur Estate Cape Fillies Guineas will have considerable value as a broodmare!
The opinion that the Equus selection panel had erred and not applied their minds to last season’s performances had come from various quarters, including an Equus award winning journalist, who summed things up quite well…
The economies of scale may differ, but do the Aussies make our Equus selection look pedestrian? They have an electorate of 60 – the chief handicappers from the nation’s race clubs were augmented by selected members of the racing media
Honorine edges back to better earlier form with impressive Gr2 Camellia Stakes victory
De Kock’s Majmu far too good as she takes first cheque in the R400 000 Gr2 SA Fillies Nursery in style and maintains her unbeaten record
Unbeaten Australian bred shows that she could develop into a serious racehorse in the future with facile win
Capetown Noir, winner of Saturday’s Gr1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate, gave his late, great sire, Western Winter, a 4th win in the Queen’s Plate
An Aussie bred wins the R1,5 million Gr1 SA Derby in a great result for trainer Weiho Marwing
The Australian bred Wylie Hall came home strongly to win the Listed Derby Trial Handicap
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