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All Black – Rugby World Cup Champions
The World Cup 2011 is over and finally the All Blacks have got a monkey (you can call that monkey a King Kong, if you like) off their backs.
The World Cup 2011 is over and finally the All Blacks have got a monkey (you can call that monkey a King Kong, if you like) off their backs.
What a Rugby World Cup 2011 has been so far. Lots of close matches, the big teams threatened, some great new talent on display.
It’s been mentioned so many times but it needs to mentioned again after South Africa’s victory over Wales: the role that drop goals have played in World Cup games.
The All Blacks were far too good for the Springboks in their Tri-Nations opener, beating the Boks 40-7 in a commanding performance in Wellington over the weekend.
Since 1996, the Tri-Nations has been fiercely contested between the Southern Hemisphere’s top three rugby nations; New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.
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