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Wednesday 07 October 2020 v AreBasics Best 1 v 2 v A Leadership Vacuum RACING MUST GET BASICS RIGHT Despite doing much of the same for have been ‘quickly identified and clearly streets ahead of the people who 364 days a year since many of us can corrected’. are actually paid a salary to do the job? remember, in the past few days we Then surely ‘updating results from a have experienced two fundamentals The error was apparently caused by an previous meeting’ while your finger is that have underlined how badly the employee updating results from last on the nuclear launch button for the game is actually run. The Sunday Saturday’s Durbanville meeting on the present day’s racing is plain simply jockey protest and Tuesday’s national internal communications reckless and not a justification for the Durbanville tote result error are network. clearly avoidables. But yet we keep Cover Image messing these basics up? We’d hardly suggest that an hour plus is ‘‘Louis Mxothwa smiles after ‘quickly identified’. The Sporting Post was winning on Michelle Crawford-Rix’ TAB’s declaration of the incorrect inundated with whatsapps and emails 75-1 shot Alter Ego at Durbanville official result for the second race at within minutes of the error. Who was the on Tuesday.” Tuesday’s Durbanville race meeting point man? We tried but couldn’t get hold courtesy of Chase Liebenberg was reported in their press release to of anybody. Why is it that the punters are 3 v error? And who was checking up the But on the flipside of the coin, SA The trainers conceded that the track line? Nobody, or somebody – who Champion jockey Warren Kennedy, ‘was not perfect’ after three days of rain clearly wasn’t doing their job. speaking in his capacity as Provincial – ‘it didn’t look pretty’ – but it wasn’t Representative of the Coastal Jockeys dangerous. They added that the water We don’t know what the error cost the Association, indicated that the decision often collected at the 1200m and 800m tote. But there were frustrated punters by his colleagues to lodge a protest on on the lower parts of the track. This was waiting to be paid out so that they Sunday had been by a majority ‘historical’. could reinvest. And what does it do for consensus – ‘not a small group of trust and confidence in an environment seniors’. A suggestion was made that a where racing’s shares are already at committee be formed of two trainers, an all-time low and carryover monies, It was labelled a ‘hijacking of the game’ two jockeys, two NHRA officials and a for one item, is a weekly unresolved by one trainer, but Kennedy refuted this Vet. subject for debate? that saying that it was a naturally emotive and difficult issue and that the jockeys “We then stick to what the committee The fallout from Sunday’s needed to ride to earn a living. decides by majority.” Hollywoodbets Greyville jockey protest that saw the meeting abandoned after “We are not living and working in a That’s not a bad idea. But who is going the running of one race is another bubble. Many jockeys came under as to get the ball rolling? That takes accident waiting to happen regularly in much pressure as anybody else during leadership, and that’s clearly not the present format. the trying lockdown months and racing something we have in abundance. is our bread and butter too. We want to “The senior jockeys are clearly just race. not hungry enough. One would have thought that after the trauma of We understand the pressure on the Keep Up With The lockdown and the dire straits racing industry – on owners, trainers and the finds itself in, they’d all have been racing operators,” said the recently champing at the bit,” said an angry crowned SA Champion. PACE! trainer who added that he was shocked and disappointed that a small group of It seems the jockeys protest was lodged riders in KZN appeared to be holding by a majority consensus. They felt the ‘the whole lot to ransom’. track was ‘dangerous’. It seems others – non jockeys - didn’t agree. email [email protected] ThereSUMMER were no changes to the top 20 MR Order CUP part of the log. UPDATEFinal entries close at 11h00 on on the second log for the R425 000 Monday 16 November with declarations Gr1 Gauteng Summer Cup to be run Got The Greenlight still holds top spot by 11h00 on Tuesday 17 November. over 2000m on the Turffontein from Summer Pudding with Queen Su- Standside track on Saturday 28 preme in third place. The maximum size of the field is 20 November, although there have been runner some merit-rating adjustments. See the Tierra Del Fuego has been given a Hollywoodbets small merit-rating drop from 123 to ante-post betting here See the 122 after his run in the Johannesburg Spring Challenge – however he retains latest his position in fifth place on the log. Second entries close at 11h00 on Mon- day 2 November after which the weights log here There have also are some merit-rating will be announced. adjustments to horses that fall into the 4 Anything Goes saunters to victory under Diego de Gouveia v JC Photos ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING! The 2019/20 Equus Champion 2yo and when given the signal by De Parade Leader mare Dance Domain. filly Anything Goes confirmed trainer Gouveia changed legs and stretched Stuart Pettigrew’s boundless away as she stormed to a facile three The latter, also dam of exported Gr3 confidence and showed that she is length victory in a time of 87,97 secs – Sea Cottage Stakes winner Green an exciting prospect again this term faster than De Kock’s also unbeaten Laser, is a half-sister to five stakes when she made it five from five and Mount Pleasant, and carrying 2,5kgs horses – most notably multiple Gr1 swept to an easy victory in more than her male counterpart. winner and present day sire, Equus Saturday’s R150 000 Gr2 Joburg Champion, Capetown Noir. Spring F&M Challenge at Turffontein. Bred by Varsfontein Stud. Anything Goes, a R275 000 buy from the 2019 National Unbeaten in five starts, Anything Goes With regular pilot Diego De Gouveia Yearling Sale, was a another big winner has banked R419 125. aboard – he has ridden the daughter for Avontuur-based Var (Forest Wildcat). of Var in all her starts – Anything Goes She has had her official merit rating was given a patient ride on the rail Anything Goes is the second graded raised from 111 to 120. about five lengths off leader Mill Queen, stakes winner produced by the unplaced Anything GoesShe’s maintains her lead at ReadyThe Non-Black Type race is open to Toentry Runopportunity that closes at 9am on the at the top of the table for the R900 eligible graduates of the 2019 Monday 26 October. 000 Emperors Palace Ready To Run Bloodstock South Africa Emperor’s Cup (Presented by Bloodstock South Palace Summer Ready To Run Sale. Declarations close at 11am on Tuesday Africa) to be run over 1400m at 27 October. Turffontein on Saturday 31 October. Entries for the race close at 11am on Monday 19 October with a supplementary Click here for the latest log 5 v 6 Captain’s Ransom storms home under Joshwin Solomons v Chase Liebenberg SOLOMONS HOLDS THEM TO RANSOM Cape Apprentice of The Year break of nine weeks, Captain’s Ransom Cinna’s Ransom’s own dam, the Joshwin Solomons demonstrated showed a terrific turn of foot as a beauti- Plankton Stakes winner, City Dance is his fast growing confidence when he fully balanced Solomons timed it perfectly a full-sister to multiple Gr1 winner, and produced a finely timed run to get from five lengths off the gallop. successful sire, Slew City Slew. Captain’s Ransom up on the line to win the R100 000 Gr3 Diana Stakes Captain’s Ransom (9-2) got up to win Captain’s Ransom has won 3 of her 4 for trainer Justin Snaith and owner going away by 0,30 lengths in a time of starts, the only time being beaten when Suzette Viljoen at a sunny 83 secs flat. second to Caya Coco in the Irrides- Durbanville on Saturday. cence Stakes and took her earnings to Captain’s Ransom, a R225 000 buy from R172 875 on Saturday. It was the young Cape Town-born the 2019 National Yearling Sale, enjoyed rider’s maiden Graded race success the distinction of being the 100th stakes The winner has seen her rating and it’s a race that senior jockey Morne winner for Klawervlei’s deceased increased from 94 to 116. In choosing Winnaar’s good son will remember champion sire Captain Al (Al Mufti) when a line horse, the Handicappers opted for a long time. This was also his 20th she won the Listed Perfect Promise Sprint to use runner-up Clouds Unfold to the winner and in terms of Rule 54.14 he last term. 121 she achieved when winning the may now claim 2.5 kg’s until the end of Majorca Stakes in February, which was the race meeting in which he rides his Bred by Moutonshoek, Captain’s Ransom the highest rating she achieved when 40th winner. is out of unraced Red Ransom mare racing against her own gender last Cinna’s Ransom. The latter, dam of season. After Aldo Domeyer had set sail on the multiple winners in Britain, is a topweighted champion Clouds Unfold half-sister to Gr3 Prix de Saint-Georges Clouds Unfold was given a ratings drop at the 250m marker, it looked to be winner Black Rock Desert and multiple and is down from 126 to 124.