“I think the jury’s out on last season’s top two-year-old colts and fillies, who may not be as good as we have been thinking they are. Rabada, Seventh Plain and our own Entisaar have all failed to win their first three-year-old starts. There are more, including Lauderdale, Chestnuts N Pearls, Melliflora…”
The third running of the R2,5 million Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes at Kenilworth today may lack for genuine tradition – but the race more than makes up for it with the size of the cheque and plenty of competitive excitement amongst connections
Dennis Drier trained Seventh Plain, an exciting multiple Gr1 winning son of Seventh Rock, headed the race log throughout, but had the awful luck of drawing an 18 barrier gate
The multiple Gr1 winner of 4 of his 5 starts, Dennis Drier trainer Seventh Plain is a son of Sunday’s Gr3 Algoa Cup winning sire Seventh Rock and a top 3yo. He has retained his position on top of the log for the R2,5 million Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes
Sarah Whitelaw reviews the year’s big race results and the likely candidates for the 2015 Equus Awards
Winning rider Anton Marcus deserves plenty of the credit for maintaining a cool head in a race that developed into a desperate struggle for supremacy in the crucial closing stages as challenges came at him from from both sides
Captain Al well and truly dominated Saturday’s Scottsville meeting, with a pair of Grade One winners and a pair of Gr1 seconds
With good weather, good company and great racing, the 2015 Tsogo Sun Sprint day truly delivered.
Summerveld-based Dennis Drier goes for an extraordinary fourth consecutive victory in today’s R600 000 Tsogo Sun Gr1 Gold Medallion
‘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’
