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18 April 2011
Confusion at Vodacom Durban July first entries
43 entries for the R3-million Vodacom Durban July but not include a single runner from the stable of champion trainer Mike de Kock. (more)
The Future of Racing
Leon Smuts thinks betting pools and interest in racing could be a lot bigger in every market if some of the simple rules of customer service and customer satisfaction are adhered to. Products should be designed to give punters a realistic winning chance. (more)
1 CommentSales: Year of the Siblings
The catalogue for the 2011 Emperor’s Palace National Yearling Sale contains a very large number of siblings to outstanding performers. (more)
Gr1 Empress Club: Dancewiththedevil impressive
Dancewiththedevil left nobody but the most stubborn in any doubt that she belongs at the top of the older middle distance female pecking order when she gave another impressive display in the Gr1 Empress Club Stakes (more)
Gr3 Umzimkhulu: Beach Beauty
Beach Beauty booked her ticket to the Korean Racing Association Fillies Guineas next month when she ran out an emphatic winner of that classic’s one genuine lead-up race (more)
Gr3 Byerley Turk: Phantom Fighter
The Dennis Drier yard completed a quick Gr3 double at Scottsville on Saturday with Beach Beauty’s success in the Umzimkhulu Stakes followed forty minutes later by stable companion Phantom Fighter in the equivalent race for males, the Byerley Turk (more)
Synthetic Track Planned For Fairview
Phumelela plans to install a state-of-the-art synthetic racetrack at Fairview Racecourse in Port Elizabeth, which will deliver major benefits to horses and the environment (more)
Export Strategy to AHS Outbreak
The Department of Veterinary Services Western Cape and the Equine Research Centre will continue to manage the present outbreak of AHS that occurred in Mamre in the Surveillance Zone, approximately 60kms from Kenilworth Quarantine Station. (more)
Phumelela In The Headlines
Phumelela posted a 9% drop in headline earnings per share to 42,6c as the strong rand and a decline in tote agency revenue hurt earnings (more)
Sweet Sanette collars Horse of the Year in Gr3 Hong Kong
Sweet Sanette, ridden by Greg Cheyne and trained by Tony Millard, denied Sacred Kingdom, the reigning Horse of the Year, a record-equalling 18th victory in the Gr3 Bauhinia Sprint Trophy over 1000m in Hong Kong. (more)
Investec Epsom Derby: 12 Colts Added To Entries
A dozen potential Investec Derby heroes have joined the list of entries for the season’s premier Classic, staged over a mile and a half at Epsom Downs on Saturday June 4, worth £1.25 million. Last year, Workforce became the first Investec Derby winner to have been entered at the second stage. There are now 134 horses engaged for the 2011 Investec Derby. (more)
Phumelela & Aussie Tabcorp In Strategic Tie-Up
The relationship will take the form of an incorporated joint venture known as Premier Gateway International. The gateway offers different tote operators the ability to co-mingle tote pools with different totes through one software solution, as opposed to having to develop a variety of solutions. (more)
Nominations for Champions Day
Three Gr1 and six Gr2 races make up Champions Day at Turffontein on Saturday 30 April with more than R7-million in stake money is up for grabs. Only 11 rivals seemed prepared to take on Igugu in her quest to become the first filly to win the Triple Tiara. (more)
Random Thoughts
- The all-powerful two-man 'Awards Committee' of the Cape Breeders Club caused a bit of controversy late last year, when it succumbed to hubris. It picked J J The Jet Plane as the Cape Breeders' Horse of the Year over the official Equus winner Irish Flame. (more)
- Champion sire Jet Master has been much in the news this last weekend of January 2011. A pair of yearling colts topped the inaugural Cape Premier Sale, at 2.5 million apiece. And 4yo Past Master won the 2.5 million J&B Met. But the price of success differs. (more)
- Barry Irwin is South Africa’s most successful international buyer. Has been for years. Barry’s eye for a horse is unrivalled. His purchases come at all sorts of prices, with all sorts of pedigree backgrounds. Barry’s a trend setter, making fashion for other to follow, but only years later. And he’s a seller of note, too, nowadays. So here are tomorrow's trends. Today. (more)
More Stuff
Gr2 Senor Santa Hcp: Polar Moon
Blinkers can revitalise a horse like very little else and the first time use of the headgear brought Polar Moon out of a slump and right back to his very best when he won the Senor Santa Handicap over 1160m at Turffontein on Saturday. (more)
Gr3 Sycamore Sprint: Give Me Five
There have probably not been many Gr 1 races whose form has turned out to be as generally uninspiring as the 2009 Allan Robertson Fillies Championship, but Give Me Five eventually managed to record her first success from eleven attempts in the nearly two years. (more)
Trippi colt – Travelin Man flies in G2 Swale
Travelin Man, a recent Hutcheson Stakes (G2) runner-up, made quick work of four challengers in his second stakes attempt, surging away in the stretch of the $147,000 Swales Stakes (G2) (more)
Trippi filly – R Heat Lightning strikes in Gulfstream Oaks
Trippi must surely be the most valuable stallion ever to stand in South Africa. He is in the Top 3 of the North American General Sires List. R Heat Lightning looked like a potential Gr1 Kentucky Oaks winner after her Gr2 Gulfstream Oak victory. (more)
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