PE Derby a great success

The SW Security East Cape Derby and Prawn Festival meeting at Fairview on
Sunday was an enormous success and a vibrant crowd of over 5000 racegoers
cheered home the horses enthusiastically for all nine of the races.


The Joey Ramsden-trained St Tropez stamped himself as a stayer with a very
bright future when sauntering to victory in the main race of the day, the
Grade 3 Cape Derby over 2400m, under his world class jockey Anton Marcus.




Later, the Alan Greef-trained two-year-old colt Juan Two Three put himself
in pole position to be named the Eastern Cape Champion Juvenile Male when
winning the Listed Epol Dahlia Plate over 1200m easily and impressively
under Greg Cheyne.


The weekend’s fun started on Friday with an eight race meeting on the
polytrack.


The Prawn Festival meeting on the Sunday has become one of the most
anticipated family fun days on the Port Elizabeth social calendar and the
carnival-like atmosphere at this year’s event proved that it is growing
from strength to strength.


1800 kilograms of prawns were sold and patrons also lapped up the plentiful
on course entertainment that was provided.


The crowd lingered on until the last horse had been led away from the
winner’s enclosure. They didn’t seem to want the day to end.


Phumelela’s Sales and Marketing Exec, Clyde Basel commented “We couldn’t be
happier with the success and growth of the Derby weekend. Fairview hasn't
seen that many people in ages and we can grow our database in order to
engage with new faces, hopefully bring them back to the races and invite
them to be a part of the Racing. It's a Rush campaign, a process that takes
them through the various levels of participation".

Was great to be on track and back a few winners

Prawn festival at Turffontein, Kenilworth & Fairview will there be one at Greyville

Would you not rather have a curry Tero? Sure GC have curry nights

Bob Brogan wrote: Would you not rather have a curry Tero? Sure GC have curry nights

Lol..prawn curry

Tero wrote:

Bob Brogan wrote: Would you not rather have a curry Tero? Sure GC have curry nights

Lol..prawn curry

Got told that SW security are a Phumelela owned crowd