2013 Champions Season Charity Turf Challenge sponsored by Gold Circle.

Was 17 th before the start but reckon quite a few might will overtake

I have 80 points

I have 77 and 76 in my top 2 sides.

Plenty of big name horses scoring big points early this year,sure there will be big changes in the coming month

Managed to jump from 95th to 13th with an entry...45 to 89 points.
Couple other entries struggling.
At least one keeping me interested for now.

I have an entry in 610 place for which I have high hopes. Only on 56 points at this stage but loaded for July day.

CAPETOWN NOIR (Points: 9 points)
CHERRY ON THE TOP (Points: 0 points)
RUN FOR IT (Points: 0 points)
BEACH BEAUTY (Points: 14 points)
YORKER (Points: 0 points)

FESTIVAL OF FIRE (Points: 28 points)
WAGNER (Points: 0 points)
PRINCESS VICTORIA (Points: 10 points)
TELLINA (Points: 0 points)
DO YOU REMEMBER (Points: 0 points)

2013 CHAMPIONS SEASON CHARITY TURF CHALLENGE (CTC) sponsored by GOLD CIRCLE

On Saturday, 25 May, Scottsville Racecourse was the venue for the first of the bonus races in the 2013 competition. Finding the winner of the Gr.1 Golden Horse Casino Sprint was worth 20 points plus the additional 5 bonus points. Majority of entrants had their hopes pinned on Cape Royal (Royal Academy) and all of Snowdon (Western Winter), Royal Zulu Warrior (Mossman), Tevez (Ceasour), and Barbosa (Captain Al) were popular choices amongst racing fans. However, the aforementioned were disappointing and it was a repeat of last year’s combination of owners, Markus and Ingrid Jooste, and trainer, Charles Laird that scored the maximum points with Contador (Var). Second placed Wild Type (Strike Smartly) scored 14 points and third placed Merhee (Elusive Quality) scored 10 points.

In the Gr.1 South African Fillies Sprint, Via Africa (Var) was all the rage and started as competition and SAFTote favourite and she did not disappoint her followers. Going over 1000M for the first time in her career, she silenced her critics who thought that the distance may be a furlong too far with a smashing victory, scoring 20 points. Second place went to the winner of the Gr.2 KRA Guineas, Festival Of Fire, scoring 14 points and the daughter of Kahal is now the leading horse by points in the competition. Princess Victoria (Victory Moon) was third, scoring 10 points.

The next major point scoring race meeting in the competition will feature the Gr.1 Daily News 2000, Gr.1 Woolavington 2000 and the Gr.3 Lonsdale Stirrup Cup worth a total of 105 points at Greyville Racecourse on Saturday, 1 June (day/night).

Provisional leader board – 27 May (subject to verification during final audit):

1 Jeremy Chetty 2 108

2 Jeremy Chetty 3 102

3 JP5 96

JOHNDO 3 96

Sadwell Boys 4 96

Nanda 3 96

7 rennie reddy 1 92

8 JOHNDO 5 91

J 9 91

Nelson 1 91

11 BCL 2013 90

BCL Tribute 6 90

13 Sagree Govender 2 89

14 roy hornsby 2 88

Sadwell Boys 1 88

Sadwell Boys 2 88

Late Runner 88

18 Royal Zulu Warriors V 87 kav entry 2 87

pj 87 rvp 20 87 Bogie9 87

DON 1 87

DON 2 87

DON 10 87

Nanda 10 87 YK Pillay 1 87 jay naidoo 2 87

Kyle 87

The Banker 87 banas boy 2 87 Bloodshot 2 87

33 maxie 86

Winners Park 1 86 putnose1 86

PE1 86

STARLING3 86

The outsider 86

John Bescoby 2 86

Gansen Pillay 3 86

Gansen Pillay 4 86

Nanda 4 86

JIHNDO 18 86

Sarvasan Naidoo 1 86

Red Rum 12 86

africanbettingclan.com 1 86

Rikesh 5 86

Go Gavin 2 86

AK47 86 fashion jock 86 Rainbow Allstars 86

Mark Aboud 9 86

Owie 4 86

Nanda 8 86

Nanda 2 86

J C Engel 1 86

57 jackmyboy 84

58 La tortuga2 83

Striker & Zacks 83

60 Rainbow Allstars 4 82

Harrithehorse3 82

Dealers Choice 82

DEVONNEIL 82 putnose 82 Kimara C 82

Hannes van Rensburg 1 82

JOHNDO 1 82 jason dedekind 1 82 69 J&R 2 syndicate 1 81

NEV02 81

Infinity100 81

ChrisD 2 81

DAMOVA8 81

The EMPRESS CLUB 81

Baywatch 81

Duchess 1 81

Ladies Club 81

Splash Of Coke 5 81

RWD BCL 2 81

Purple & White 2 81

Go Big 81

3A Racing - Harri 81

Harrithehorse2 81

MILKWOOD 81

MILKWOOD TOO 81

Saki-2 81

Saki-1 81

Saki-4 81

Philani 1 81 Bogie10 81 tony_j 3 81 tony_j 6 81 tony_j 7 81 tony_j 9 81 95 Rikesh 3 80

GSP RACING 80

Rikesh 17 80

The Madji 5 80

Lucky Nummbers 80

Last Gasp 80 3Cycad 80 puthead3 80 JOHNDO 6 80

JOHNDO 17 80

JOHNDO 14 80

JOHNDO 20 80 Peter Haripersad 43 80

The entire Leader Board can now be viewed on the Charity Turf Challenge home page, click on Leader Board and at the bottom of the page open PDF file.

The leading horses by points of the competition thus far are:

2013 CHARITY TURF CHALLENGE by LEADING HORSES (25 May)

NAME of HORSE POINTS

1 FESTIVAL OF FIRE 28

2 CONTADOR 25

3 VIA AFRICA 20

4 WILD TYPE 14

BEACH BEAUTY 14

JET EXPLORER 14

7 PRINCESS VICTORIA 10

MERHEE 10

ROCK COCKTAIL 10

10 CAPETOWN NOIR 9

JET AGLOW 9

TRUE MASTER 9

13 GOLD ONYX 6

CORREDOR 6

HILL FIFTY FOUR 6

JET SUPREME 6 17 KING OF PAIN 5

18 SECRET OBSESSION 2

19 AGRA 1

BLUE ROUTE 1

CAPTAIN’S LULLABY 1

CAVIAR 1

DUAL ASSET 1

NORTHERN EMPEROR 1

RIVER CROSSING 1

SNOWDON 1

EARTH’S ORBIT 1

PIERNEEF 1

IN A RUSH 1

BIG CITY ANGEL 1

JE ‘TAIME 1

HEAVY METAL 1

LOUVRE 1

KALAAM 1

CASUAL VAR 1

The second spot prize draw took place on Saturday, 25 May (Scottsville) on Tellytrack before the start of Race 5. This is a computer generated, random draw from all entrants and not dependent on points earned. The three winners of a R500 telephone betting deposits (each) kindly sponsored by TAB GOLD “The Intelligent Bet” are:

• Bin Punter 2

• PJ One

• Logan & Perosha

CONGRATULATIONS to all winners! The next spot prize draw will be on Saturday, 1 June at Greyville Racecourse.

As and when Charity Turf Challenge horses earn points, we will update the Racing South Africa website and email data-base: www.racingsouthafrica.co.za

Best Regards

Charity Turf Challenge Team

You guys are all premature, the bucksman will come from behind...

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Hope you not Greek?

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Errrr... my name is not flashbucks...

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Western Explorer, I wouldn't turn my back on Greg.