CHERRY ON THE TOP TOPS GAUTENG FILLIES GUINEAS

Click above to watch Cherry On The Top winning the Wilgerbosdrift Gauteng Fillies Guineas (Grade 2)
(Image: Sporting Post - Footage : Tellytrack)

WILGERBOSDRIFT GAUTENG FILLIES GUINEAS (Grade 2)
Turffontein, Turf, 1600m
2 March 2013

#	LBH	Horse	Kg	MR	Dr	Jockey	Trainer
1	0.00	CHERRY ON THE TOP	58.0	101	16	*N Juglall	Ormond Ferraris
2	2.25	DO YOU REMEMBER	58.0	83	8	B Fayd’Herbe	Geoff Woodruff
3	3.00	KING’S TEMPTRESS	58.0	99	11	R Fradd	Kumaran Naidoo
4	4.75	ESPUMANTI (GB)	56.0	97	2	A Delpech	Mike de Kock
5	5.50	JET BELLE	58.0	81	18	G Wogemann	Robbie Sage
6	8.00	NEGEV	58.0	90	13	P Strydom	Louis Goosen
7	8.25	AL KINDI	58.0	87	19	G Lerena	Mike de Kock
8	9.25	MARGOT ON STAGE	58.0	87	9	K Zechner	Roy Magner
9	11.00	SECRET OBSESSION	58.0	80	6	J Sampson	Geoff Woodruff
10	12.00	FORTITUDE	58.0	79	4	C Maujean	Lucky Houdalakis
11	15.00	TAYBA	58.0	90	7	R Simons	Mike de Kock
12	16.00	FIRE WHEEL	58.0	96	3	A Marcus	Sean Tarry
13	17.00	LUALA	58.0	80	12	S Chambers	Stephen Moffatt
14	19.00	AMBER ORCHID (AUS)	58.0	85	15	K Shea	Sean Tarry
15	25.00	WOOD NYMPH	58.0	89	14	G Hatt	Mike Azzie
16	99.00	SHOW TIME	58.0	83	17	F Herholdt	Steven Janse van Rensburg
		Late Scratchings
17	0.00	SKY PIRATE	58.0	88	1	M Odendaal	Weiho Marwing
18	0.00	ANEEFA (AUS)	58.0	84	10	R Danielson	Mike de Kock
19	0.00	CAT’S GAME	58.0	80	5	Reserve 3	Stanley Ferreira

Summerhill runners denoted by yellow

HIGHVELD RACING AWARDS 2012 : RESULTS

The Mouseketeer - Emerald Cup (Grade 2)…
(Photo : JC Photos / Summerhill Stud)

HIGHVELD RACING AWARDS
19 May 2012

RESULTS

Champion Two Year Old Filly
KING’S TEMPTRESS
Champion Two Year Old Colt / Gelding
SOFT FALLING RAIN
Champion Three Year Old Filly
ILHA BELA
Champion Three Year Old Colt / Gelding
SLUMDOGMILLIONAIRE
Champion Older Horse
EUROPA POINT
Champion Sprinter
SHEA SHEA
Champion Middle-Distance Horse
EUROPA POINT
Champion Stayer
GORONGOSA
Champion Sand Specialist
THE MOUSEKETEER
Horse Of The Year
EUROPA POINT
Champion Apprentice
NOORESH JUGLALL
Champion Jockey
ANTHONY DELPECH
Champion Trainer
MIKE DE KOCK
Champion Breeder
SUMMERHILL STUD
Champion Owner
MRS MARY SLACK - WILGERBOSDRIFT
Work Rider
ABRAHAM MAKHUBO
Special Award
KELVIN HAARHOFF

The voting panel consisted of Clyde Basel; Alistaire Cohen; Patrick Davis;
Germaine Maharaj Darryl Maree with Vee Moodley
as Chairman of the voting panel.

HIGHVELD RACING AWARDS 2012 : NOMINEES

Smanjemanje - Victory Moon Stakes (Grade 2)
(Photo : JC Photos / Summerhill Stud)

HIGHVELD RACING AWARDS
19 May 2012

NOMINEES

Champion Two Year Old Filly
FRANNY, KING’S TEMPTRESS
Champion Two Year Old Colt / Gelding
(ONLY ONE NOMINEE)
Champion Three Year Old Filly
BAMBINA STRIPES, GO INDIGO, ILHA BELA, JACKODORE, KATY’S LANE
Champion Three Year Old Colt / Gelding
DELIVER THE POWER, GOLDEN CHATEAU, POMODORO, ROYAL BENCHER, SILVER FLYER, SLUMDOGMILLIONAIRE
Champion Older Horse
DANCEWITHTHEDEVIL, EUROPA POINT, SHEA SHEA
Champion Sprinter
ANTIOUS, DELIVER THE POWER, SHEA SHEA
Champion Middle-Distance Horse
DANCEWITHTHEDEVIL, EUROPA POINT, KAVANAGH, SMANJEMANJE
Champion Stayer
ATYEB, GORONGOSA, ILSANPIETRO
Champion Sand Specialist
FURIOUS DANCER, MR TOBIN, THE MOUSEKETEER
Horse Of The Year
All winners in above categories qualify
Champion Apprentice
HENNIE GREYLING, NOORESH JUGLALL, NEO QAULE
Champion Jockey
ANTHONY DELPECH, GAVIN LERENA, PIERE STRYDOM
Champion Trainer
MIKE DE KOCK, SEAN TARRY, GAVIN VAN ZYL
Champion Breeder
HIGHLANDS STUD, SUMMERHILL STUD, WILGERBOSDRIFT STUD
Champion Owner
MRS BRIDGET OPPENHEIMER, MRS MARY SLACK, MR CHRIS VAN NIEKERK
Work Rider
The leading work rider will be honoured at the event

The voting panel consisted of Clyde Basel; Alistaire Cohen; Patrick Davis;
Germaine Maharaj; Darryl Maree with Vee Moodley
as Chairman of the voting panel.

THE SHEIKH AND THE SHEARER

King’s Temptress (left) and Soft Falling Rain (right)
(Image : Sporting Post / Mike de Kock Racing)

THE COLTS’ AND FILLIES’ NURSERIES

We said Monday we’d pen another story about the two nurseries run at Turffontein on Saturday. We couldn’t resist : it was the democracy of the turf at its best.

Let us remind you. The Colt’s Nursery (Gr1) was taken in facile style by Soft Falling Rain, the property of the Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum. He cost nigh on half a million bucks, and Mike de Kock regards him highly enough to have him on the plane for England, alongside Igugu.

The Fillies’ Nursery, by contrast, fell to a determined rush from an unraced filly trained by an unknown trainer by a supposedly unproven (or should we say “failed”) stallion, and it happened at the expense of a hitherto unbeaten filly belonging to a member of our local “royalty”.

The winner, King’s Temptress, is trained in Kimberley, a one-horse Kalahari town that wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for diamonds. Racing is still conducted gymkhana-style on an arid sand track much as it was in the mid 1800s when Cecil John Rhodes and Barney Barnato were still just diggers, like everyone else at the “Big Hole”.

Corrie Lensley, the filly’s trainer, is a part-time operator whose background is in sheep farming and shearing. And that’s the part that tickles us. In Kimberley, a shearer has always been thought as good as a Sheikh. Better really, because a Sheikh is not much use if your merinos need dagging.

In Kimberley a couple of years back, the winning owner of the Flamingo Park Cup was invited by the stewards to the committee lounge for a drink. Thanks, he said, but he had to rush home to milk the cows.

One of the cherished pieces of Kimberley’s folklore is that any battler can win a Flamingo Park Cup. And a few have, though fewer than mythology allows. The democracy of the Cup has given it a rare flavour. It doesn’t go like this in many places in the world.

Editors Note :

King’s Temptress was bred by the Waterford Stud in Queenstown, one of the last remnants of what was once a thriving breeding industry in that area. The late Richard Sahd and his brother Bennie, established the stud, and it’s to the credit of Ben and Richard’s widow, Toy, that they’ve stuck it out against so many odds. Truth is, Queenstown is horse country, and this is not the end: it is the end of the beginning.