Stan Elley

Rear view mirror

Big wins, brasses and boring bits

They say the unexamined life is not worth living and life’s rear view mirror occasionally shows up details that weren’t obvious at first glance, so before we launch headlong into 2016, I thought it would be fun to look back at the year that was.

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Stan Elley

Super Saturday: Elley Will Saddle

The weather enforced switch of the Super Saturday racemeeting from 25 July to 1 August has had racing fans questioning implications of the impact of holding the features in the new season

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Punta Arenas

Elley: Stipes Were Right

Stan Elley, trainer of the July runner-up, is standing by his original assessment: that the stipendiary stewards made the correct decision in overruling jockey Ian Sturgeon’s protest on Saturday

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41 Years On – Stan Says Cheers

The 64 year old Elley has enjoyed a cracking KZN Champions Season, and is in the envious position of having two runners on the Vodacom Durban July top twenty log. That is no mean achievement for a yard of his size.

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Dynastic Power

Has Stan Got The Power?

Trainer Stan Elley returns to Greyville on Saturday after his giant-killing performance in the Betting World 1900 at the same venue three weeks ago. He saddles his July duo of Winter Derby winner Dynastic Power and the old man Punta Arenas – and will be hoping for fireworks again from the pair

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Dynastic Power

One Giant Step For Stan ‘Kind’!

Veteran conditioner Stan Elley took a giant step into the Vodacom Durban July limelight, when saddling first and third in a thrilling climax to the R350 000 Gr2 Betting World 1900

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Power King wins the Gr3 Winter Guineas at Kenilworth on 14-05-04

A Galaxy Of Blue

Trainer Dean Kannemeyer has the best recent record, having won this race four times in the past thirteen years, and he will be hopeful of a big showing from his luckless Cape Winter Triple Crown pretender, Power King

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