The South African horseracing industry will be united behind a former Glen Puller-trained Sophomore Sprint winner in Sunday’s HK$20 million Audemars Piguet Gr1 QEII Cup
There was hardly a dry eye in the house when Paul Lafferty’s Stronghold 4yo Double Clutch galloped his way to glory in Friday evening’s delayed R135 000 Listed Easter Handicap at Greyville
An underrated jockey riding a lesser fancied stable companion and Negev pops out of the woodwork to hit punters for a six in the Listed Syringa Handicap. The Pick Six dividend of R180 460 illustrated the difficult conditions on a tough day
Winning jockey Stuart Randolph admitted in the post race interview that he was cursing Paul Lafferty halfway through the race
Puller’s man too strong in the R125 000 Listed Sophomore Sprint at Kenilworth
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You’ve got to give it to the Ready To Run judging panel: it was the collective experience of more than three hundred years in the game that identified the Strongholds and Mullins Bays as South Africa’s “second coming”.
‘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’
