SPORTING POST DIGEST • Thursday 16 auGust 2018 1 NATIONAL 2YO SALE 16-17 AUGUST Thursday 16 august 2018 TBA Complex • Germiston FAIRVIEW turf Friday Best Roving Banker: R4-(1)Ingabangabonga(3/1) TURFFONTEIN Saturday Best Roving Banker: R7-(2) Nordic Rebel (2/1) KENILWORTH Saturday Best Roving Banker: R2-(9)Juniper Spring(16/10) SCOTTSVILLE Sunday Best Roving Banker: R3-(12) White Lightning (1/1) Sunday 12 August Scottsville - race 5 Sporting Post Best Handicapped Pic - from l to r: Michael Leaf, Kevin Sommerville, Gaynor Rupert & Ross Fuller Miss Varlicious Equus 2017/18 has come and gone. The season’s champions have been acknowledged as the bright shining WON 5/1 lights on a landscape where doom and gloom often casts a long shadow. The fact remains that we boast some genuine world-class talent in South Africa. The Snaith Racing Team’s extraordinary dominance That’s no mean achievement for a Cape condi- over the past season was underlined again at Equus tioner in anybody’s book! on Tuesday evening when the popular Capetonians Snaith won seven Gr1 races during the past dominated the show, much as they had done at the season. The exciting aspect is that his two biggest Cape Racing & Breeding awards function at the plush winners – Champion 3yo Filly and Sa horse Of The Vineyard hotel a week earlier. year Oh Susanna and Champion 3yo Colt Do It Besides being crowned Cape Champion Trainer and again – are 4yo’s this term. receiving an Exceptional achievement award at his Equus Champion sire Silvano’s progeny – there hometown ceremony for his glorious successes in the are nine of them – will again be in great demand at Sun Met with Oh Susanna, as well as in the Durban this week’s National 2yo Sale. July, where he trained the first three home, Justin was The multiple award winning sire claimed his also crowned the Sa Champion Trainer for the second third South african sires championship at Equus on time on a memorable Tuesday evening. Tuesday evening and also picked up silverware at last SPORTING POST DIGEST • Thursday 16 auGust 2018 2 THE STARS SHINE BRIGHT SATURDAY RACING Wednesday evening’s Cape Racing & Breeding awards ceremony. The sire of 20 Gr1 winners, including four Vodacom Durban A Pair Of Aces July winners, Silvano, who was previously Champion Sire in MR94 Handicap (F&M) Kenilworth 2012/13 and 2016/ 17, has sired the winners of 182 races last Justin Snaith and Richard Fourie joined season, with his progeny earning R19 729 770. forces at the start of the new season and he was represented by 12 individual black type winners, with after just over a fortnight have already his top runners including the local graded stakes winners Elusive established themselves as the hottest Silva, Strathdon, Simply Royal, Star Express and Bella Sonata. trainer-jockey combination around. They Nordic Breeze | Wayne Marks Broodmare sire of Gr1 Sun Met second Last Winter, Silvano look set to make their presence felt again featured prominently in 2017/18 and ended the season as South at Kenilworth on Saturday in the topliner, an MR 94 R110 000 africa’s Seventh Leading Broodmare Sire by stakes earned. Handicap for Fillies & Mares, run over the 1000m. Mike de Kock (for his Terrance Millard equalling 117 Gr1 win- The new Sa Champion conditioner has three runners in the eight ners), anton Marcus (for his 100 Gr1 winners) and Lyle hewit- horse field and the smart Querari filly angel’s Trumpet must be the son (for his dual championship titles) were given Outstanding stable elect with the irrepressible Fourie taking the ride again after achievement awards. Mathew and Di de Kock received the award winning on her over the course and distance last Saturday. in Mike’s absence, while both Marcus and the bright young star apparently named after an extinct poisonous flower, angel’s hewitson showed remarkable eloquence on the podium as they Trumpet caught the eye less than a week ago when she took on a paid tribute to the many people behind their success. decent field of male speedsters including the likes of the aged but as the clock ticked towards midnight, Gaynor Rupert was on evergreen star Tevez, and ground them into the turf with an enthu- hand to accept the Champion Owner award – held for a decade siastic and explosive galloping display. That was her first run after by Mayfair Speculators - on behalf of Drakenstein Stud. She gave a break of three months, prior to which the summer going could a fascinating speech with some interesting history and had her have contributed to the now three-time winner losing her good Mum present. form. She did flash up for fourth 3,45 lengths behind the talented In a rare insight into her personal thoughts, Mrs Rupert re- Magical Wonderland in the Gr2 Sceptre Stakes at the L’Órmarins counted how her 15 year old passion has grown from Mick Goss Queen’s Plate Festival in January – but appeared to relish the soft and a filly called Final Call, with 15 broodmares in the paddock, underfoot conditions last Saturday. She hammered the speedy to over 100 today. The Drakenstein Stud runners won 38 races Olympian (admittedly in receipt of 5,5 kgs) by a going away 1,25 and amassed just over R9-million in stakes last season. lengths. If not suffering from a second run after a rest hiccough, she about 95% of their winners were fillies and aS racing’s new looks likely to be very competitive again here and gets the blinkers first lady humbly acknowledged that the champion trophy that fitted in an interesting move. she proudly held aloft was thanks to the exploits of her star 3yo, The Snaith’s dual Gr3 winner Nordic Breeze failed by a nose in Sa horse Of The year, Oh Susanna. a thriller when bidding to win the Gr3 Champagne Stakes for the We salute all the nominees and the winners. second consecutive year at her last run. Prior to that she beat Osti- nato going away and looks to hold that one again. apprentice Louis Equus Winners: Burke claims 4kgs and that could be a dealmaker here. The third of the Snaith runners, Weston dropped out at Dur- CHaMpion 2yo ColT - Soqrat banville last time when carrying a heft 64,5kgs (before apprentice CHaMpion 2yo Filly - Return Flight allowance) and beaten just over 6 lengths by Velvet Dawn in a mod- CHaMpion 3yo ColT - Do It Again est MR 80 handicap. She looks to have plenty to do here. CHaMpion 3yo Filly - Oh Susanna Mike Stewart’s speedy 4yo It Is What It Is carries a paperweight CHaMpion oldeR Male - Legal Eagle 49,5kgs courtesy of new Cape apprentice Liam Tarentaal. While her CHaMpion oldeR Filly/MaRe - Nother Russia form may not appear inspiring on the surface, she has run some fair races and could give them the slip if allowed too much leeway. CHaMpion SpRinTeR - Will Pays While held by Nordic Breeze on her penultimate jump, Glen CHaMpion MileR - Legal Eagle Kotzen’s Ostinato is a very capable course-and-distance winner who CHaMpion Middle distanCe - Oh Susanna could give aldo Domeyer a welcome back present after the new CHaMpion STayeR - It’s My Turn Cape champion jockey’s short holiday. The daughter of Judpot is CHaMpion STallion - Silvano probably at her best over 200m further but she will be running at CHaMpion BRoodMaRe - Strawberry Lane them late and must be included in permutations. CHaMpion BReedeR - Klawervlei First of the Joey Ramsden duo, the beautifully-bred Still I Rise outstanding BReedeR - Northfields returns from a rest of 27 weeks where she is another that went through a CHaMpion appRenTiCe - Lyle Hewitson START PA3/PICK SIX2/JACKPOT1 loss of form. CHaMpion JoCKey - Lyle Hewitson 3:00PM MR 94 HANDICAP (F&M) - 1000M KENILWORTH 4 SAME TRAINER:(1-3-6)(2-5) She is by CHaMpion owneR - Drakenstein Stud Windrush 1 NORDIC BREEZE(J Snaith) L Burke................. 2 63.0 Street Cry CHaMpion TRaineR - Justin Snaith Querari 2 MADE IN HOLLYWOOD(J Ramsden) D Dillon 8 60.5 out of an Querari 3 ANGEL’S TRUMPET(J Snaith) R Fourie ........... 5 59.5 Horse oF THe yeaR - Oh Susanna Judpot 4 OSTINATO(GS Kotzen) A Domeyer .................... 7 57.5 unraced En- Street Cry 5 STILL I RISE(J Ramsden) M Winnaar .............. 1 57.0 outstanding AchieveMenT awaRdS Philanthropist 6 WESTON(J Snaith) A Mgudlwa .......................... 6 57.0 costa De Lago Var 7 VICE VERSA(BJ Crawford) A Marcus ............... 3 56.5 half sister Lyle Hewitson • Anton Marcus • Mike de Kock Count Dubois 8 IT IS WHAT IT IS(JMT Stewart) L Tarentaal .... 4 53.5 SPORTING POST DIGEST • Thursday 16 auGust 2018 3 NEWS to a Gr1 australian Cup winner. So she could go a bit further in time! according to stable reports, Still I Rise has undergone the UK Racecourse On Shaky Ground Caslick Procedure – this is a surgical closing of the upper part of The future of Towcester racecourse and greyhound track has been the vulva, commonly practiced on broodmares. The procedure placed in doubt after the owners of the course revealed steps are evolved in an effort to treat what was said to be the negative being taken to place the business in administration with job losses effect that air had on a mare’s reproductive system. her trainer already confirmed. is a master and ignore her at your peril – with match fitness a The Racing Post reports that the Northamptonshire jumps track is real concern. due to stage three more fixtures this year, with the first card on Octo- her stablemate Made In hollywood looks held by Nordic ber 10, while greyhound meetings are staged every Friday, Saturday Breeze on her Champagne Stakes fourth (2 lengths) last time and Sunday evening, and also on Saturday mornings.