#Drill Hall Stakes

Tarry will have a strong hand in all of the Gr1's at the Festival Of Speed meeting on June 4. David Thisleton writes on www.goldcircle.co.za that the former multiple national champion trainer believes his best value runner at the Festival Of Speed meeting will be his VAR entire Eden Roc. This five-year-old has not made the frame in four starts this…

The Spring season proper gets underway at Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Saturday, 1 October with the Hollywoodbets Matchem and Diana Stakes being run over 1400m. Both are Grade 3 events. Cosmic Highway (speed score 112) impressed in the Diadem Stakes and is a high-quality sprinter miler. He has not run for 17 weeks and is drawn widest of all at 10,…

The ante-post betting market for this year's Durban July is risk-averse, as they say in the financial pages. Jittery might be a better word, or perhaps poep -scared. Only one horse is quoted in single figures on the bookmakers' boards and remarkable value is for the taking among the 50-plus entries still in the race. The current favourite, at 8-1,…

The Drill Hall Stakes at Greyville on Saturday officially launches KwaZulu-Natal's winter season - nowadays officially called the Champions Season and making it indistinguishable from all the other Champions Whatevers. Thankfully it's still the Drill Hall Stakes, a time-honoured 1400m Grade 2 race named after the elegant military building in the…