SARAH WHITELAW: One thing seems to have been clearly established following the running of the July – it is difficult to see any horse other than Variety Club (Var) being named Horse of the Year.
Another wonderful Vodacom Durban July day has come and gone, and this past Saturday’s 116th running of Africa’s Greatest Horserace will be remembered in the years ahead
Mike Bass is pleased with the progress of his eleven runners carded for Saturday’s Vodacom July day. Here’s a direct link to the Bass website
Punters on this year’s Vodacom Durban July have been given added incentive with the Totalisator set to pay six places on the big race to be run at Greyville Racecourse on Saturday, July 2.
No surprises for fancied runners, while race favourite draws in the middle
LANCE BENSON: The only man to own, breed and train a Devil has hopefully not spoilt the fairytale and party for the fairer sex by opting not to run his brilliant little girl.
First acceptance netted 32 July-hopefuls. Final declaration is on Tuesday 14 June.
July log as at 6 June shows the top twenty, and the ten best-of-the-rest
Final supplementary entries for the Vodacom July yielded just one extra entry, with J&B Met winner Past Master set to carry top-weight. First declarations are due 9 June, final on the 14th.
Handicappers in consultation with Gold Circle publish a log of the entries. The log reflects all the horses, in order of preference. Factors used include the horses’ current Merit Rating, current racing form and competitiveness in the Graded and Listed stakes programme over the past year.
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
