“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.
In this business, none of us should overestimate our powers of prediction and our best tools are experience and context, couched in all the humility we can muster
Just when he thought the system had failed him, jockey Jason Gates received a notification from the National Horseracing Authority this week
Horses from 13 countries, including 35 individual Group or Grade I winners, are set to contest the 29th Dubai World Cup meeting
A humdinger closer with a head separating the Candice Bass-Robinson duo of Stu’s Girl and the favourite Johnny Drama at the line!
