Friday, 25 May 2007, Greyville Night Racemeeting
Charity usually begins at home but on Firday night it will
be at the 100m mark at Greyville Racecourse in Durban where
six teams will do their best for charity in the Astrapak
Challenge 2007.
Astrapak night has become an important and entertaining
evening on the racing calendar and for the past few years
racegoers have had plenty of laughs in the various challenges
that have been staged for teams from various sporting and
corporate organisations. all in aid of charities.
The challenge on Friday night is on mini-quad bikes and,
as they are not the easiest of vehicles to handle on an
undulating surface, the six heats and the final should prove
lots of fun.
The competition takes the form of six heats run between
the horse races on the evening with the winners of each
heat lining up in the Astrapak Challenge Final. And the
final is where racegoer participation comes in and the three
charities benefit.
Tote betting will be operating on the result offering Win,
Place, Exacta, Swinger, Trifecta and Quartet bets. Should
there be less than the required number of finishers, the
affected bet types will be deemed to have the field for
any position affected. So, in the Quartet, for example,
if there are only three finishers, the fourth position will
be the field.
The net commission from the betting pools will go to the
Highway Hospice, the KZN Past Players Trust and the KwaZulu-Natal
Horse Care Unit.
This should be a whole lot of fun and, together with what
is certain to be a fantastic race in the Astrapak 1900,
it will be a great evening. See you there.
The teams and times are as follows:
Heat 1- The Flasher Girls Off at 18:00
1. Lisa Lottering
2. Taryn Bowker
3. Roxy Smit
4. Daiana Sillun
5. Tammaryn Butler
6.
Heat 2 - The Sharks off at 18:05
1. Jacques Botes
2. Tendai Mawarie
3. Warren Britz
4. Steven Sykes
5. Henno Mentz
Heat 3 - Nashua Dolphins off at 18:40
1. Doug Watson
2. Daryn Smit
3. Ugasen Govender
4. Tyron Pillay
5. Johan Louw
6.
Heat 4 Team Astrapak off at 18:45
1. Linky Du Toit
2. Wayne Gellatly
3. Matthew Adendorff
4. Gareth Elcox
5. Byron Nunes
Heat 5 S A Cricket Legends off at 19:20
1. Neville Wright
2. Gary Gilder
3. Ross Veenstra
4. Rob Macqueen
5. Duncan Brown
Heat 6 - SA Rugby Legends off at 19:25
Adrian Garvey
Cabous van der Westhuizen
Wayne Fyvie
Andre Joubert
John Slade
Race 11 21:10 Finals of the Astrapak Challenge