GOLD CHALLENGE RACEMEETING

24 May 2005


The three feature events at the big Clairwood Racemeeting in Durban on June 11 has attracted an additional 11 entries.

The new entries include Mike Azzie’s exciting four-year-old Badger Land colt, Night Watch, considered to be a Vodacom Durban July contender. The colt is the sole supplementary entry in the R600 000, Grade 1 Gold Challenge over 1 600 metres. He comes off a very good win in the Listed Sledgehammer over 1 800 metres at Scottsville earlier this month.

The Gold Challenge is a weight-for-age event which now has an entry of 23 horses and is the top mile event in the province in the winter season.

The R150 000, Grade 2 Tibouchina Stakes over 1 450 metres has received three additional entries in Dave Goss’s Dream Come True, Weiho Marwing’s Platinum Rose and Paul Denysschen’s Punters Dream. This is a race for fillies and mares at weight-for-age terms and the supplementary nominations raise the entry list to 32.

The final feature on the day is the R125 000, Grade 3 Cup Trial, a merit-rated handicap over 1 800 metres where the winner gains automatic entry into the R500 000, Grade 1 Champions Cup to be run over 1 800 metres at Clairwood on July 30.

Alec Laird has entered three horses as supplementary nominations, Blue Rake, London Casino and Mist Of Gold and Dave Goss has added Medal Ceremony to the entry list.

The three other additional entries are Paul Denysschen’s Rusedski, Colin Lee’s Name The Key and Nic Claassen’s Up The Fard, increasing the number of nominations to 35.

Acceptances for these races close at 11am on Thursday, June 2.