28th August 2019
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The SA Champions Season Ride Of The Season winner will be announced at the regional racing awards
A shrewd tactical move by Anton Marcus on the 3yo Soqrat almost proved the undoing of Sun Met winner Rainbow Bridge
Justin Snaith’s top-class 4yo Kasimir surely sealed the Equus Champion Sprinter title
While the Gr3 test lacked genuine depth, Silvano’s good daughter Platinum Class produced a polished performance and delivered the banker-of-the-day goods
Richard Fourie has been engaged to ride Sun Met winner Rainbow Bridge in the R1 million Gr1 Champions Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday 27 July
Snaith team’s terrific training feat as Do It Again makes it consecutive victories
The switch of the scheduled turf meeting to the artificial surface might have had the Juniper Spring connections pondering their luck
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
