Ready To Run Cup – Champion Scratched

Hollywoodbets have War Of Athena as new favourite

In an awful blow for her connections, Stuart Pettigrew’s champion Var filly Anything Goes has been scratched from Saturday’s R900 000 Peermont Emperor’s Palace Ready To Run Cup at Turffontein.

The shock withdrawal has opened the door for the inclusion of the Mike de Kock owned and trained maiden, Mynage.

Unbeaten in five starts, the Equus Champion Anything Goes beat older rivals in the Joburg Spring Challenge last time and was expected to take a power of beating, despite her wide gate, on what would ironically have been her biggest paydate.

The first cheque for the BSA sales race is a healthy R450 000.

Champion Anything Goes – injured and out of the Cup (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)

Hollywoodbets have priced up her arch-rival War Of Athena, who went down narrowly to Anything Goes in the Gr1 Thekweni Stakes, but won her prep run impressively, as the new 14-10 favourite.

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Anything Goes was scratched by trainer Stuart Pettigrew at 09h58 on Thursday morning as she had apparently injured her wither in her stable.

We could not reach Pettigrew for further comment.

The champion’s regular rider Diego de Gouveia has already been snapped up by the De Kock team to partner the eight-times raced maiden Mynage, who is priced at 20-1.

PEERMONT EMPERORS PALACE READY TO RUN CUP (Non-Black Type) Presented by BSA
For 3 year-olds
No Apprentice Allowance
1 6 Mk’s Pride 60 96 A W Kennedy Paul Peter
2 18 Somasonic 60 91 A L Hewitson Sean Tarry
3 4 Gavel Strike 60 84 TBA S Moodley Lezeanne Forbes
4 12 Desert Illusion 60 83 A G van Niekerk Brett Crawford
5 5 The Kop 60 83 A C Zackey Gary Alexander
6 9 Absolutist 60 82 T A A Arries Michael Miller
7 17 Harlequin Jack 60 82 A C Murray Mike de Kock
8 3 Flying Carpet 60 0 T A *L J Ferraris Sean Tarry
9 11 Anything Goes Scratched 57.5 120 A D De Gouveia Stuart Pettigrew
10 15 War Of Athena 57.5 111 A S Khumalo Paul Matchett
11 2 Afternoon Tea 57.5 97 A A Domeyer Ashley Fortune
12 14 Miss Elegance 57.5 95 A P Strydom Lucky Houdalakis
13 16 Swiss Bank 57.5 81 T A C Maujean David Nieuwenhuizen
14 1 Only The Brave 57.5 78 T A *K Matsunyane Paul Matchett
15 8 The Villa Grand 57.5 77 A M Yeni Paul Matchett
16 7 Lady Of The Flame 57.5 76 T A D Schwarz Paul Matchett
17 10 Mynage 57.5 75 T A D De Gouveia Mike de Kock
18 13 Emerald Floe 57.5 75 BA Reserve 2 J A Janse van Vuuren

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