South Africa has much to cheer for this weekend with no less than 4 representatives taking on the world. Smart Call makes her UK debut, while Yorker, Harry’s Son and Same Jurisdiction run at Chantilly
After an exciting debut at the Ebor Festival, Yorker steps out over a mile at Sandown on Wednesday
After in excess of 800 days since his last run, Yorker makes his UK debut
SA-bred Yorker is set to make his UK debut in the 20 August Strensall Stakes at York, before tilting at the Champion Stakes on Qipco British Champions Day
In an announcement on 4 March 2015, Mike de Kock confirms that Yorker is unlikely to campaign in Dubai this season
Saturday’s Vodacom Durban July meeting at Greyville confirmed a few likely Equus Award winners for the 2013-2014 season.
We are very disappointed at the way things have been handled as it would have been wonderful to try and win the race for Markus, Bernard and Jim, so we’re doing this with a heavy heart, but we’ve got to do what’s best for the horse.
“We haven’t had the answers we were hoping for to launch an overseas campaign via the USA and while a very slim hope exists that we will hear of an alternative by Monday, we will be running him in the July.”
The Cape stars came out tops in the interprovincial needle stakes following last weekend’s Greyville thriller and the power game now moves to Clairwood this Saturday for the next round. The R1 million Gr1 Gold Challenge is a high quality mile contest and trainer Geoff Woodruff will be keen to exact revenge after a rough ride.
“There’s R2 million and Gr1 at stake – there’s no holding back,” says Woodruff. Our photography team paid the yard a visit to snap all the big guns.
This fellow looks something very special. A longstriding handsome son of Jet Master, he won this Gr1 contest with a stamp of authority and Gold Circle will be hoping that he heads Durban way for a tilt at the riches of Champions Season
A dual Grade 1 winner and South Africa’s highest rated racehorse, the Vaughan Marshall trained One Stripe will campaign in a partnership of Hollywood Racing and Rikesh Sewgoolam
A seasoned racing fan writes that in the zone between 15 and 3 minutes before the official race time, nobody is interested in listening to the personal fancies and various constructions of the presenters’ exotic permutations
A final field of 17 will face the starter at the Hollywoodbets Kenilworth 2000m marker on Saturday 25 January for the 163rd renewal of the R5 million World Sports Betting Gr1 Cape Town Met
