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.
Ace trainer Justin Snaith talks about his Met day chances Mike Moon
Trainer Justin Snaith feeds hay to Vodacom Durban July winner
Legislate at their Clairwood stable in 2014. Picture: Supplied Justin Snaith says he expects ‘a good day’, having 12 of his own horses running in the upcoming Met Day, and he also gives some tips on who he thinks are the biggest challenges to his own charges.
Saddling 27 horses for the 12 races on Cape Town Met day might seem a daunting task for some trainers – but not Justin Snaith.
“In fact, it’s the fewest number of runners I’ve had at the Met for quite a while,” he says, explaining that a lockdown ban on owners attending Saturday’s meeting had quietened demand for big-day representation.