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Article by Nicholas Godfrey: A long-range assault on this year’s Breeders’ Cup is being hatched by connections of Isivunguvungu, a dual G1-winning sprinter in South Africa. ....
5:25PM, JAN 30 2021 Foxwedge is now the sire of four individual Group winners, all of whose victories have been achieved in different countries, after Run Fox Run joined the list in the Cape Flying Championship at Kenilworth on Saturday. A Group 1-winning sprinter in Australia, the Fastnet Rock stallion spent the middle of last decade at Whitsbury Manor Stud in Hampshire before returning home, and has been based at Woodside Park Stud in Victoria. His best performers to date have been Foxplay, who took the Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes in Australia, New Zealand s Railway Stakes winner Volpe Veloce and Urban Fox, who took the Pretty Polly Stakes in Ireland. ....
Itâs a power-packed Met at Kenilworth Mike Moon Belgarion, ridden by Richard Fourie, won the 2020 Vodacom Durban July and is the favourite for the Met. Picture: Candiese Lenferna The Cape Town Met is a much-storied horse race, but seldom in its almost 140 renewals can it have had a line-up as talented and competitive as this Saturdayâs. Only 11 go to post for the R1 million Grade 1 contest over 2000m, but pundits are in broad agreement that only two of those have zero chance of winning. Connections of Sovereign Spirit and Silver Operator might disagree with this assessment, but, honestly, if either were to win it would be up there with the biggest shocks ever seen at Kenilworth racecourse. ....