Greyville on Met Day ?

MEDIA RELEASE

ADDITIONAL RACE MEETING - SATURDAY, 28 JANUARY 2017

DATE ISSUED: 11 JANUARY 2017

Gold Circle will stage an additional race meeting at Greyville on Saturday, 28 January 2017, to coincide with the running of the R5-million SunMet (Gr1).

“It’s a no-brainer for us to embrace the Kenilworth festivities and to provide our racing fans the opportunity to enjoy the SunMet and supporting races on the big screen at Greyville, while taking in some local action at the same time,” said Gold Circle’s Marketing Executive Graeme Hawkins.

“We race on Friday night the 27th at Greyville and also Sunday the 29th at Scottsville, so the additional meeting creates a first-time-ever weekend carnival of horseracing in KwaZulu-Natal. The Friday night meeting features the popular “Prize-Nite”, in partnership with Hirsch, and also a Night Market in the Paddock Area, while the Scottsville meeting features the Marula Sprint over 1200 metres,” added Hawkins.

For the added race meeting on Saturday 28th, the official 8-race programme at Greyville will comprise six local races as well as the SunMet (Gr1) over 2000m and the Blue Label telecoms Cape Stayers (Gr2) over 2800m as races 3 & 5 respectively. The first local race is due off at 16:05 but on-course betting facilities will open at 12:00 to allow for wagering on the Kenilworth and Turffontein meetings.

The Durban View restaurant will be open to the public and bookings can be made with Gail Klopper on (031) 314 1780. All other on-course catering facilities, including the Braaizone and the Lightning Shot Bar, will be available to the public.

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I just knew that was coming... Gold Circle never seem to surprise me.. to be honest guys, pick one centre and stick with it. I can just imagine the mistakes some punters will make when placing bets on exotics at different centres.

Six local races and then incorporating 2 x Kenilworth races..............is this a first that only 6 races will be run at a course on a full card in SA?

The headliner on the six race card is a fillies and mares merit rated 70 handicap over 1000m plus a merit rated 66 a merit rated 62 and another merit rated 60 handicap .The other two races are both qualified maiden races with horses that have a GROSS RATING of 66 or lower it looks to be a quality filled card :lol: :lol: :lol: The maximun gross stake for each race is 60k

the skys the limit if you can get them right so worrying about what you cannot control is not productive

fafi wrote: the skys the limit if you can get them right so worrying about what you cannot control is not productive

You should follow your own advice son

The quality of racing on Tellytrack for Met day will now be diluted.

You cant blame gold circle for staging a meeting on met day as every year on july day there is a meeting at turfontein .

Agree with Pirates 100%, I'm sure the Greyville meeting will be completed come race time of the Metropolitan, I see its only run at 5.10pm.

pirates wrote: You cant blame gold circle for staging a meeting on met day as every year on july day there is a meeting at turfontein .

yebo yes. 100%

Yes you are correct Pirates,but KZN is racing fri on greypolly,sat at greyville and sunday at scottsville.I think they are overdoing it when you consider how many mr 66 handicaps and weak maiden races can the punters take on 3 days in a row?

As my bookmaker never fails to remind me when I am whinging about a stupid (always losing!) bet I took:

Nobody made you do it!

Thankfully I applied that reasoning to Durban racing a long time ago. I simply ignore it for at least 9 months of the year. (So why am I commenting? Lol).