Double For The Hooker
A triple Gr1 runner-up in her career so far, Hammie’s Hooker has just been one of those horses loaded with talent, but born in the wrong year
6th June 2015
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A triple Gr1 runner-up in her career so far, Hammie’s Hooker has just been one of those horses loaded with talent, but born in the wrong year
Not too many studs can boast a Met win to their credit. Zandvliet has five. As well as a trophy from just about every other feature race in South Africa. On hearing the recent news that the farm is being sold, we caught up with Dan de Wet and had a look at the history of this illustrious stud.
Hammie’s Hooker, a Gr2 winner, has had the misfortune to bump the likes of Rumya and Beach Beauty on her well worn path in competing against the very best of her sex and in her quest in her, as yet, unrealised goal to register a Gr1 victory.
Precocity in racehorses is often marked by an inability to train on. But Hammie’s Hooker has bucked the trend and looks to be getting better as she matures, despite her mid career slump
Promising speedster shows that his mind is now on the job as he outsprints some talented contemporaries to win his first stakes race
Mike Bass has a top-class juvenile on his hands in the daughter of Trippi, Hammie’s Hooker. She won the Gr3 Kenilworth Fillies Nursery in style
With 21 wins in 26 starts Hawaii was thoroughly tested for speed, stamina, character, toughness, soundness and durability in two hemispheres and two continents
In the run for home Royal Victory, having his first run over 2000m, built up from rear of midfield as he picked them off one by one and had Son Of Raj and Safe Passage firmly in his sights at the 200m
In 1874, the members of the South African Turf Club chose a site on the farm Kenilworth for the construction of a new racecourse – which means that next year the foundation of the oldest racetrack in South Africa will celebrate 150 years
