“Trip To Heaven got a hefty penalty and went from a 109 to 115 after his Gr2 Joburg Spring Challenge win. So I decided to bypass the Charity Mile. My short-term plan is to run him in the Gr2 Merchants on Summer Cup Day and then look at a race like the Horse Chestnut in the medium term.”
An emotional victory achieved through a cracking feat of training by national log leading conditioner Sean Tarry saw a former top-class youngster return to winning ways at Greyville on Sunday
“We are taking it one race at a time with The Hangman and trying to build some positive momentum. He is a course and distance Gr1 winner and this little handicap presents a perfect stepping stone for him.”
Some of the horses go on and prove you right, some prove you wrong. Some you retire and you think maybe I kept them a season too long. If they can still perform and they’re happy doing it, then why not?”
Some top 3yo’s have won the Gr3 Graham Beck Stakes in the past, including the Hong Kong based multiple Gr winner Cerise Cherry . This feature is worth a humble R200 000 but can be a stepping stone to better things.
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
