Entries Betting World 1900

Form Fundi wrote:

JC wrote: I do agree with you. But to indirectly imply that a horses connections are being "unfair" to punters by not entering it in a certain race I disagree with.
Maybe we should ask why the horse isn't entered... there could be valid reasons.

JC , I don't think any of your arguments make any sense at all. Racing needs transparency and Mr. Azzie is being quite the opposite.

Why not phone Mr Azzie and ask him?

I'm just saying I do not think it's fair that you state, on an open forum, that he is being unfair by not telling you everything about a horse that is yet to run on our shores.

Any news on Gold Standard has not been heard from since great run in the Met?

Here is my opinion about Hat Puntano.
Azzie and his connections are on a hiding to nothing. Run the horse to get his MR down and he risks not getting in "on current form". He runs well, gets into the July and runs off a too high a weight just like Abashiri last year.

They should bring him out in a pinnacle later this month and prep him for the Champions challenge at the end of the Durban season and then take him to CTN.

That would make the most sense I would imagine?

Taken a stab at master switch 1900/July double @100/1

Chris van Buuren wrote: Here is my opinion about Hat Puntano.
Azzie and his connections are on a hiding to nothing. Run the horse to get his MR down and he risks not getting in "on current form". He runs well, gets into the July and runs off a too high a weight just like Abashiri last year.

They should bring him out in a pinnacle later this month and prep him for the Champions challenge at the end of the Durban season and then take him to CTN.

That would make the most sense I would imagine?

As an aside I wonder Chris or Pirates etc can recall Foveros - I'm not sure what races he contested but in those days there was no MR but he came into SA having run some big races in the UK and France if I remember correctly and then won many here

Journalist: David Thiselton – Gold Circle Publishing Department

MEDIA RELEASE

17 MAY 2017

Vodacom Durban July watchers will be on tenterhooks throughout this week in the build up to one of the most important pointers to the big race, the Betting World 1900, which will be run on Friday night at Greyville.

The 1900 is one of the Champions Season D-Days for horses who are on the borderline of July qualification.

Justin Snaith has the topweight It’s My Turn, who finished fourth in the July last year. However, he was only in 18th place on the first July log, so will need to run a big race either here or in another qualifier like the Cup Trial. Snaith’s other 1900 pair, Elusive Silva and Prince of Wales, put in excellent SA Champions Season pipe openers in the Listed Sledgehammer handicap over 1800m. Elusive Silva showed a magnificent turn of foot to win easing up and is now joint-second on the July boards at 8/1. He only has a 99-merit rating, but was in 16th place on the July log. The winner of the 1900 can only get a maximum of a six-point merit rated raise, so he looks likely to be one of the best weighted horses in the July. Prince Of Wales gave Elusive Silva 3kg in the Sledgehammer and ran on strongly to be beaten only two lengths. Snaith said he had come on tremendously for the run, so he still represents good July value at 33/1. Prince Of Wales and Elusive Silva have landed plum draws on Friday night.

Last year’s July-winning trainer Joey Ramsden has a fascinating runner in Macduff. He is merit rated only 89 and finished way back in the Sun Met, but he had some good 1800m form behind Whisky Baron before that. He won his only previous start at Greyville. That was in the Listed Darley Arabian over 1600m on the poly, where he showed a good turn of foot, He is as effective on turf and has a plum draw on Friday night.

National Champion trainer Sean Tarry runs the tough old front-running veteran Serissa, who should ensure a decent pace. He also runs five-year-old Hyaku and the three-year-olds Tilbury Fort and Copper Pot. Copper Pot has a good turn of foot, but has been found wanting in features to date. Tilbury Fort finished a good 2,8 length third in the Gauteng Guineas, but was way back in the Gr 1 SA Classic, where he might not have enjoyed the going, as he should stay the 1900m trip.

Geoff Woodruff’s Master Switch has come into his own this season, so should do better in this race than he did last year. His stablemate Go Direct has also come into his own in the typical manner of a four-year-old by Go Deputy and is a dark horse. Both of Woodruff runners have wide draws.

Three-times July-winning trainer Dean Kannemeyer runs Mr Winsome, who is a typically improving son of Silvano, but must prove he is as good against out of province horses as he is against the locals.

Gavin van Zyl runs the long-striding but continually disappointing Rocketball. He has dropped to a 95-merit rating and showed some signs of revival last time.

Four-times July-winning trainer Mike de Kock runs Jubilee Line, who is yet to live up to the regard he is held in, but ran a good race in a 2000m handicap last week.

Duncan Howells runs Ten Gun Salute, who was in last year’s July and has been said to have come on a lot from gelding.

mr hawaii wrote:

Chris van Buuren wrote: Here is my opinion about Hat Puntano.
Azzie and his connections are on a hiding to nothing. Run the horse to get his MR down and he risks not getting in "on current form". He runs well, gets into the July and runs off a too high a weight just like Abashiri last year.

They should bring him out in a pinnacle later this month and prep him for the Champions challenge at the end of the Durban season and then take him to CTN.

That would make the most sense I would imagine?

As an aside I wonder Chris or Pirates etc can recall Foveros - I'm not sure what races he contested but in those days there was no MR but he came into SA having run some big races in the UK and France if I remember correctly and then won many here

He could go on to win everything in the country possibly but it won't be the July as a 3 year old unless he is another horse chestnut?

Hat Puntano raced 3 times....42K stakes in each race and won twice....wonder how strong the fields were in those races....

the duke wrote: Hat Puntano raced 3 times....42K stakes in each race and won twice....wonder how strong the fields were in those races....

Won two Grade Ones. Long list of Argentinean horses that has race around the world with aplomb.

mr hawaii wrote:

Chris van Buuren wrote: Here is my opinion about Hat Puntano.
Azzie and his connections are on a hiding to nothing. Run the horse to get his MR down and he risks not getting in "on current form". He runs well, gets into the July and runs off a too high a weight just like Abashiri last year.

They should bring him out in a pinnacle later this month and prep him for the Champions challenge at the end of the Durban season and then take him to CTN.

That would make the most sense I would imagine?

As an aside I wonder Chris or Pirates etc can recall Foveros - I'm not sure what races he contested but in those days there was no MR but he came into SA having run some big races in the UK and France if I remember correctly and then won many here

Raced in England, France and South Africa from 2 to 6 years (1978-82).

1981 1st A DIVISION HANDICAP (1400m), (L), R10000
1981 1st GERMISTON NOVEMBER HANDICAP (1600m), G2, R80000
1981 1st HAWAII STAKES (1600m), G1, R50000
1981 1st QUEEN’S PLATE (1600m), G1, R50000
1981 1st J&B METROPOLITAN (2000m), G1, R129000
1981 2nd KING’S CUP (1600m), (L), R10000
1981 2nd CLAIRWOOD CHAMPION STAKES (ADMINISTRATORS) (1600m), G1, R60000
1981 4th NATAL FLYING CHAMPIONSHIP (1200m), G1, R30000
1981 4th TRANSVAAL CHAMPION STAKES (1600m), G2, R25000
1982 4th CHAMPION STAKES (WFA) (2000m), G1, R50000

At stud in South Africa 1982. Rated 121 lbs by Timeform. Champion Older Male 1981-82. Horse-of-the-Year 1981-82.

Agree Naresh.....but in SA Mr Millard was a maestro with these ARG breds ......

Foveros won the 1982 Met - beat a well fancied M Airey charge - blew him away