A Champ At Home
SARAH WHITELAW: River Jetez, one of the toughest and gamest globetrotters of her generation, is enjoying her new life at Avontuur
SARAH WHITELAW: River Jetez, one of the toughest and gamest globetrotters of her generation, is enjoying her new life at Avontuur
Pocket Power’s brilliant full-sister River Jetez has been tested in foal to superstar stallion Var
LANCE BENSON: Everybody is entitled to an opinion but the Gold Cup was a wonderful plan come together for two relatively young old men from Cape Town in trainer Dean Kannemeyer and jockey Felix Coetzee.
Nominations for Singapore’s two International Group 1 races on 20 May have brought together an impressive array of talent.
SARAH WHITELAW: Good runs from River Jetez, Mahbooba, Musir; G1 double for Spectrum daughters; Jet Master improving
River Jetez, a R230 000 purchase at the 2005 National 2yo Sale, lines up in Saturday’s G1 Beverly D Stakes at Arlington on Saturday
The 2011 Falmouth Stakes gets the Group 1 action underway at this weekend’s July Meeting at Newmarket as some of Europe’s top fillies and mares compete over a mile.
Fillies and mares take centre stage on day two of Newmarket’s Piper Heidsieck July Festival, Friday, 8th July, Abu Dhabi Day, when the highlight is the £160,000 Etihad Airways Falmouth Stakes over a mile.
The Herman Brown trained Gitano Hernando with Glynn Scholfield ran first with and South African bred, trained and owned River Jetez second
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million