THE CUP BETTING : WHAT THE PUNTERS ARE SAYING...

Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup
(Photo : Summerhill Stud)

R1,500,000
EMPERORS PALACE READY TO RUN CUP
(Non-Black Type) For 3 Year Olds
Turffontein, Turf, 1400m

6 November 2010 16:40 (SAF) Race 5

#	HORSE	CURRENT	OPENING
11	IGUGU	4/10	9/20
7	AL’S MARK	7/1	7/1
10	CHECCETTI	8/1	7/1
16	CHEKECHE	14/1	14/1
12	HOLLYWOODBOULEVARD	16/1	14/1
15	HONOLULU	16/1	20/1
1	DRACONIAN	25/1	16/1
3	UMFUTHO	40/1	40/1
14	DANEHILL DARLING	50/1	40/1
2	OH DRISCOLL	50/1	40/1
13	RUNNING ROGUE	50/1	50/1
5	SINGLE TEMPO	50/1	50/1
6	UMHLABA	50/1	40/1
8	CHERIE’S BOY	66/1	50/1
9	CHIP SHOT	66/1	66/1
4	PAINTYOURFACE	66/1	66/1

Betting courtesy of Betting World - Correct as at 8am 6 November 2010

Emperors Palace Ready To Run Sale
Sunday 7 November 2010

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THE CUP LOG : 19 OCTOBER 2010

Igugu… heading the Cup log
(Photo : JC Photographics / Summerhill Stud)

R1,5 MILLION
EMPERORS PALACE READY TO RUN CUP
SATURDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2010

LOG AS AT
TUESDAY 19 OCTOBER 2010

Log #	Horse	MR
1	IGUGU	98
2	WAYWEST GODDESS	100
3	WOLF ON THE FOLD	89
4	CHECCETTI	100
5	IBROX PARK	90
6	HIS AFFIDAVIT	93
7	DRACONIAN	88
8	INKANYEZI	87
9	HOLLYWOODBOULEVARD	89
10	OH DRISCOLL	87
11	IN LIKE FLYNN	87
12	AL’S MARK
13	RIDETHEBREEZE	87
14	SINGLE TEMPO	86
15	COUNT DUMANI	85
16	HONOLULU	82
17	DANEHILL DARLING	83
18	RED DELICIOUS
	Below the line
19	PARLIAMENT	83
20	IMPROMPTU	82
21	WELSH EMBLEM	82
22	BRIAN’S WAGER	79
23	BUSSELL	79
24	CHEKECHE	79
25	NOBUKHOSI	79
26	BOYSENBERRY	78
27	MEMGHAR	77

*NB: This is an invitational race. Handicapper’s discretion applies.

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THE CUP LOG : 4 OCTOBER 2010

Waywest Goddess… heading the qualifying log
(Photo : JC Photographics/Summerhill Stud)

R1,5 MILLION
EMPERORS PALACE READY TO RUN CUP
SATURDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2010

Just a few weeks back, the news broke of a proposed increase in the stake for the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup from R1,5 million to R2 million. Simultaneously, the stakeholders announced the introduction of a series of five trials in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, to facilitate guaranteed opportunities of a run for would-be candidates which might have faced elimination in the maidens otherwise.

Getting a run though, doesn’t necessarily get you into the race. Such was the quality of last year’s entry that 29 of them were already winners, so the organisers have inaugurated a second panel, along the lines of the Vodacom Durban July. From October forward, the NHA’s Roger Smith, Phumelela’s Patrick Davis and Gold Circle’s Graeme Hawkins will publish a merit list, reflecting qualifiers above the line, and providing connections of those below it with an idea of what they need to do to get over the line.

There’s R1,5 million at stake this year, and if the history of subscription for this event repeats itself next year, there’ll be R2 million up for grabs in 2011. It’s about the best deal in racing.

LOG AS AT
MONDAY 4 OCTOBER 2010

Log #	Horse	MR
1	WAYWEST GODDESS	100
2	DRACONIAN	94
3	HIS AFFIDAVIT	93
4	CHECCETTI	92
5	IBROX PARK	90
6	HOLLYWOODBOULEVARD	90
7	OH DRISCOLL	90
8	IN LIKE FLYNN	89
9	RIDETHEBREEZE	89
10	WOLF OF THE FOLD	87
11	INKANYEZI	87
12	SINGLE TEMPO	86
13	COUNT DUMANI	85
14	DANEHILL DARLING	83
15	PARLIAMENT	83
16	HONOLULU	82
	Below the line
17	IMPROMPTU	82
18	BRIAN’S WAGER	81
19	IGUGU	80
20	BOYSENBERRY	79
21	BUSSELL	79
22	NOBUKHOSI	79
23	FIRST SOVEREIGN	76
24	GATUSSO	76
25	NANDA DEVI	76
26	RUNNING ROGUE	75
27	UMHLABA	75
28	WELSH EMBLEM	75
29	QUEENSWAY	74
30	RICHINSTYLE	74
31	THE UNDEFEATED	74
32	DIZZY RASCAL	73
33	MISS DIANA	73
34	MISS LOPEZ	73
35	CLIENT KING	72
36	BUKA WENA	69
37	GENTLE LOOCHEE	68
38	HONG KONG SPIRIT	68
39	PAINTYOURFACE	68
40	IZULU	67
41	SALSA RAPIDO	67
42	SUCHA WONDER	66
43	EMIRATES EVE	57
44	RUBY WEDDING	56
45	MIYAMOTO	53

*NB: This is an invitational race. Handicapper’s discretion applies.

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INCONCEIVABLE? IMPOSSIBLE? INCREDIBLE?

Way West
(Summerhill Stud)

…NOT WITH THE DEMOLITION MAN.

His speed as a juvenile earned him the nickname “The Demolition Man”.

His pedigree and his physique earned him his place at Summerhill.

Waywest Goddess’ crowning as the Highveld Juvenile Champion earned him his respect. But the past fortnight has earned him his stardom.

Six winners in fourteen days, leave Way West’s first crop with only Champion Sire Western Winter, ahead on the Three Year Old Sires’ Log. And conceivably, they may have earned all of Waywest Goddess, Honolulu, Bussell, Nobukhosi, Danehill Darling, Sucha Wonder and Queensway a crack at the R1,5million Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup, come 6th November.

Inconceivable? Impossible? Incredible?

NOT WITH THE DEMOLITION MAN.

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WAY WEST : 25% OF R1,5 MILLION "CUP" FIELD

Bussell
(Photo : JC Photographics) 

“WEST IS BEST”

David Hayes is widely regarded as one of Australia’s best racehorse trainers. There was a time though, when he took a sabbatical to Hong Kong, and left the affairs of his family’s famous Lindsay Park training establishment in the hands of his old team. The explosive precocity of a son of Danehill during his absence, very nearly brought him back from Hong Kong to prepare the youngster for his tilt at the world’s richest race for two year olds, the Golden Slipper.

That horse was Way West, whose record-smashing bolt of lightening in the celebrated Blue Diamond Prelude (Gr.3), suggested he would be a major factor when the bookmakers chalked up for the “Slipper”. It wasn’t only the race record that stirred the belief in the Hayes veins that this was a legitimate candidate, it wasn’t only the fact he surpassed the time of, Alinghi, one of the best juvenile fillies Australia had seen in years. Rather, it was the way he did it, overcoming a mid-race stumble, and getting up from the floor to find another gear and beat the Group One performers, Oratorio and Sanzero.

 Way West already has a Highveld Juvenile Champion in Waywest Goddess; and the hugely promising Honolulu, whose talents were vividly expressed in a 2,5 length romp a week ago.

And as if they were withholding their efforts in an attempt to ensure the handicappers’ memories would be fresh at the point of selection of the field for the Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup, on consecutive days of this weekend, Bussell and Nobukhosi put up their hands with impressive performances at Turffontein and Scottsville.

While the judges will still have the final say, it’s conceivable right now that Way West will be represented by four individual runners in the fourth richest race in the land. That’s twenty five percent of the field if they all get a run, some kind of achievement for a first season sire. All of Louis Goosen, Paul Matchett, Dominic Zaki, Chips Pennells and Duncan Howells will be rubbing their hands in anticipation of bigger things.

That’s not all though, John Vos has a live candidate going to the track this week, in the form of Shee’s Gone West, a filly with two seconds from two starts to date, and almost certainly to be ripe for the winner’s box. Is it possible Way West could have 30% of the line-up?