Written In Stone has won twice as a nine-year-old, the first of them being under Louis Nhlapo over 1200m at the Vaal on August 8. (JC Photos).
The Brett Webber-trained nine-year-old Pathfork gelding Written In Stone has been a magnificent horse to own for Fred & Linda Mindszenty & Mrs B I d’Oliveira, who have remained faithful for all 100 of his runs and they have been rewarded with 60 first 5 cheques, including six wins for overall earnings of R 660,737.
All in all he has had six wins, eight seconds, 19 thirds, 18 fourths and nine fifths.
He has been a wonderful horse to follow for place punters, especially considering that despite his consistency he has started at double figure odds on no fewer than 59 occasions.
He is quite a strapping horse with a big stride.
If it pans out well for him he invariably finds a strong finish.
However, he does not enjoy being cramped as he was today.
He might have been bottled up by Jason Gates, who won on him last time when exposing him to daylight more than 600m out, but in the opinion of the Turf Talk editor this horse needs some room to move in order to use his big action in the running.
He will then invariably find extra.
On the other hand he did cop a five point raise for that last win and ran off a 67 today in the MR 74 Handicap over 1450m at Turffontein Inside.
Written In Stone was bred by Mr Schalk & Mrs Claire Le Roux.
He looks to have more runs in him and a big round of applause should be given to Brett Webber and his team for keeping him so enthusiastic for so long.
