Paul Lafferty’s Celebration Rock, an Australian-bred son of Excelebration, is a narrow leader of the 2019 KZN Summer Challenge after Sunday’s Hollywoodbets Scottsville meeting.
The series, which runs from 4 August to 24 November, gives the average handicapper a chance to compete for a large stake of R150 000 per final and their trainers a chance to earn an incentive bonus.
Celebration Rock (Keagan de Melo) gains a narrow victory on Sunday (Pic – Candiese Marnewick)
Three finals will be run over 1200m, 1600m and 1 950m on 8 December at Hollywoodbets Scottsville.
See the leaderboard per 15 September 2019
All races (excluding Features, Maiden Plates & Maiden Juvenile Plates) run in KwaZulu-Natal between 4 August and 24 November will count as qualifying races to earn points provided that the nett Merit Rating of a horse (after WFA Allowance) may not exceed 102 in the race in which it participates.
A horse that has won a Maiden race in KZN needs to run in one further qualifying race to qualify to be entered to run in any final.
Horses that have won Maiden races outside of KZN need to run in two further qualifying races for consideration in one of the finals.
