Entries Cape flying championship

3 J J THE JET PLANE (7G) 0.0 122 Lucky Houdalakis

7 WHAT A WINTER (4C) 0.0 117 Mike Bass

1 VAL DE RA (5M) 0.0 111 Dennis Drier

5 COPPER PARADE (4G) 0.0 108 B Joey Ramsden

4 DELAGO DELUXE (AUS (3C) 0.0 108 B Mike Bass

6 CAPTAIN'S SECRET (5G) 0.0 107 Mike Bass

2 RABATTACHE (5G) 0.0 107 Glen Puller

Gauteng vs KZN vs WP... Have to make a date to be there

Keen to see the betting on this one and better still to watch the race

7 nominations is really poor.....seems like everyone running for 3 rd but........!

the cape racing is poor with the entries

Flash Harry Wrote:

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> the cape racing is poor with the entries

The ones that matter are there. The thing with WFA races is why do we need to see fields flooded with entries that can't win? One of the best SA Guineas ever run at Greyville had six runners - if I recall, three of them were Elevation, In Full Flight, and Sentinel.

It's different with handicaps or races where the weights make it feasible for an "inferior" horse to win, but even with 7 entries there are one or two that don't appear to have a realistic chance. And with fields tending to crowd the outside in Kenilworth sprints at the moment, the fewer runners there are to cause traffic problems for the principals the better (not that Val De Ra is likely to be coming from off the pace, but still.

It's true magic if u check the UK same many small fields in big races just nominate Frankel and u are sure of a small field

We've seen races like the King George and the Arc with five or six runners at times. Doesn't stop them from being won by champions.

And of course there were only four other horses in the field when Secretariat ran arguably the most astonishing race of all time to win the Belmont by 31 lengths. Flooding quality races with outclassed horses really doesn't achieve much.

the field might be small,but it is high quality.in fact it may be the strongest sprint field we had in sa for a long ,long time.i for 1 will definately be on course to c this mouth watering contest.i wonder who will pilot jj,striker or bernard?

Magic must say can't remember a small field in the ARC?

Waw from Delago Deluxe

scotia Wrote:

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> Magic must say can't remember a small field in the
> ARC?


There was seven in 1941 for obvious reasons