Turf Talk Newsletter – 6 July, 2026

Note To Self stretches late to get the better of stable companion Wish List (Picture: Race Coast)

Going into Saturday’s Hollywoodbets Durban July there were four jockeys who had ridden four or more July winners and two trainers who had trained six or more July winners and this list of six names proved that there is nothing lucky about winning Africa’s greatest race as all of jockeys Anton Marcus, with a record five wins, jockeys Piere Strydom, Anthony Delpech and Harold “Tiger” Wright, with four wins apiece, and trainers Syd Laird and Terrance Millard, with seven and six wins respectively, were all true greats in their own right.

The pair who have now joined them, Justin Snaith and Richard Fourie, can now also be called greats of the game and their respective performances in this year’s July renewal provide good examples of why they deserve that accolade.

Justin Snaith brought Note To Self back from a below par run in the Daily News 2000, which he came out of with a temperature, to be at his absolute peak for Saturday and he was then given one of the best July rides in recent times by Fourie.

Snaith landed a second July exacta, although the last time he did that in 2018 he also got the trifecta and fifth place too for the most dominant finish by one trainer in July history.

On Saturday Note To Self jumped from the draw many believe to be the best draw in the race, barrier eleven, because it is the first stall in the second bank of stalls and the tyres between the two stalls create a sizeable gap between barrier positions ten and eleven.

Fourie made good use of this advantage, using the room available after jumping to sit still and get into a rhythm.

He then found a nice position with cover.

Some might have felt he was too far back, but Fourie had an ace up his sleeve.

The big long-striding Futura gelding had got the decent pace he needed and now just needed to be produced at the right time.

Fourie began a surging run before turning for home, realising that the big bay was a horse with a big action who would need a long resolute run in as opposed to one who was able to turn it on in the last 300m or so.  Fourie went way wide during this move, but that ensured a clear passage as well as a clear path down the straight.

Meanwhile, the Snaith-trained favourite Wish List had enjoyed the run of the race. Andrew Fortune had eased her over from draw seven and managed to find cover in a handy position. She ended up sitting in a one out and one back position with cover behind Choisaanada, who was on the quarters of the pacemaker, the Snaith-trained topweight Legal Counsel.

Wish List burst through a gap and hit the front at the 300m mark and it looked like a fairytale story was going to have a dream ending as 59-year-old Andrew Fortune looked to have the race for the taking.

However, Note To Self was beginning to eat up the ground with his big action.

Richard Fourie’s class as a jockey was not only seen in the early move he made for home, but also by the fact that he made two deft changes of whiphand in the final 200m. The first might have been to straighten Note To Self by changing his stick from left to right as he was lugging in towards King Pelles. The second was after he had cleared King Pelles. Note To Self had been looking a touch one-paced at that stage but he now had ample room to use his big stride to its maximum and to do the natural thing of shifting towards the horse he was trying to beat. Fourie’s change of stick to the left helped him with this cause, although it was a late change of leg that ensured victory for the big horse as he found extra when it really counted.

The two stick changes of hand had been done while rousting his mount and was in the final stages of a R10 million race and yet he had remained cool, calm and collected.

Note To Self’s victory clinched a first July victory for Varsfontein Stud as breeders.

It also ensured that Snaith and Fourie had become the most prolific partnership in July history, the first trainer-jockey combination to clinch four Julys together.

It was a gallant effort by Wish List to lose by just a quarter of a length.

Note To Self is owned by Jonathan Bloch, Jonathan Snaith and Nancy Hossack, while Bloch and Hossack own Wish List together. Bloch and Hossack thus clinched a rare July exacta as owners.

The five-year-old King Pelles ran a fine race to finish a 1,55 length third under visiting jockey Chad Schofield. He could be regarded as a touch unlucky too as he was sitting behind Wish List approaching the straight, but lost this position to Gladatorian, who switched outward off the rail. So King Pelles thus began his bid for home further back that he might have been and had to come wider than he would have been.

Viva’s Liberte ran on strongly from midfield and had he not been short of room late he might have made it a first and third for the two sophomore males in the race, members of a crop whom many had said were overrated. Luckily those who said so are not handicappers as the race was dominated by those two together with the only sophomore female who had directly measurable form with them, the Cape Derby winner Wish List.

Note To Self and Wish List had also finished in the exacta positions in the Gr 1 Lucky Fish Cape Derby, but in a different order. However, Wish List had received a weight for age gender allowance of 2,5kg in the Cape Derby whereas she only received half-a-kilogram from Note To Self in the July, so she put up the best weight for age performance of the race.

Isivivane ended up in the box seat in the running from pole position and stayed on for a 3,20 length fifth.

Native Ruler was a 3,95 length sixth off a 119 rating last year and a 3,90 length sixth this year off a 121 rating, while Gladatorian was a five length seventh off a 127 rating last year and remarkably he was a five length seventh off a 127 rating this year. That pair provided a link to last year’s race and proved that the three-year-old winner this year had performed just as well as the older horse winner from last year.

Zeitz was fancied by many but was caught wide in stages and in any case the form from his Betgames Cup Trial win did not stand up the whole day, including from the runner up I Salute You, who ran second last in the July.

Mocha Blend was ninth and Choisaanada tenth.

The stakes money was split as per below:

Stakes: 1st: R5,750,000 | 2nd: R1,500,000 | 3rd: R750,000 | 4th: R420,000 | 5th: R230,000 | 6th: R150,000 | 7th: R140,000 | 8th: R130,000 | 9th: R120,000 | 10th: R110,000

Nancy Hossack is in the middle while Jonathan Bloch and his son Zac are on the right hand side standing next to another shareholder in Note To Self, Jonathan Snaith (Picture: Race Coast) 

Justin Snaith and Richard Fourie made history in Saturday’s R10 million Hollywoodbets Durban July, becoming the first combination to win four Julys, and Snaith clinched the exacta with two horses both part-owned by Jonathan Bloch and Nancy Hossack, meaning the latter had become the second owners this millennium to land the July exacta and the third in recent memory.

For Nancy Hossack it was an incredible day in which events had reached full circle over a 12 year period and in which her thoughts were often with her late father Jack Mitchell.

Her emotions would likely have reached a xenith at 18H00 hours on Saturday evening when she had the privilege of hanging up her father Jack’s colours on the Hollywoodbets Durban July Wall Of Honour in the Hollywoodbets Greyville Classic Room. Winning owners in the past have always talked about this privately conducted traditional ceremony as being the moment of realisation, not only because of the many famous set of silks seen on the wall, but also due to the incredulous feeling of being part of an exclusive group who will forever be woven into South African history.

Nancy was on course at the 2014 July with her father when his part-owned Snaith-trained Dynasty colt Legislate was awarded the race after an objection, with the Brett Crawford-trained Dynasty colt Futura in third place. Legislate did not run in Jack’s silks but Futura would go on to do the Gr 1 L’Ormarin’s King’s Plate and Gr 1 Met double in 2015 carrying Jack’s white with black spots and sleeves colours and a white cap.

Wind on to 2026 and the same colours, now in Nancy’s name, were carried to first and second in the July and both horses are by sires owned by Jack, with Note To Self being by Futura and Wish List being by July winner Legislate.

In between those dates Nancy was on course to watch another horse part-owned by her father, the Snaith-trained Do It Again, winning the July in 2018. She recalled the connections had gone out together the previous evening and had all contracted food poisoning and Jack had been so ill he only managed to make it to the course just in time to watch Do It Again win.

Nancy recalled, “That was an amazing experience and everybody suddenly improved after the win!”

Nancy and Jack had raced out of the Nick Jonsson box that day and the latter had landed the July exacta as a part-owner in both Do It Again and the Snaith-trained runner up Made To Conquer. Nick recalled at the time that his good friend Luke Bailles had been the last owner to land a July exacta when the Terrance Millard-trained pair Illustrador and Olympic Duel finished one-two in 1990.

And now in 2026 another ownership exacta is once again linked to the previous one.

The link goes even further because another part-owner in Do It Again was Investec founder Bernard Kantor and Jonathan Bloch and Nancy Hossack first met while working in the same building for Investec, where they often chatted because of their shared interest in horseracing.

When Do It Again did it again in 2019 Jack’s estate was the part-owner as he had sadly passed away and Nancy later took over the colours.

She said, “The 2019 win was Do It Again’s most emotional victory because he did it without my Dad being here.”

Jonathan Bloch confirmed, “The build up to this year’s race was amazing and this partnership has been beautiful, Nancy is the perfect partner to have in racing and it is special that both Justin and Jonathan (Snaith), as a shareholder in Note To Self, are part of this horse too. it is so great when there is such a history behind the victory too.”

Jonathan was not only referring to Jack in the latter statement, but also to the like of ownership greats Abe Swersky, Anold Golombick, Graham Beck and Laurie Jaffee, who had mentored him both in business and racing.

Those famous racing men had also influenced Nancy’s racing nous as her father had sat on the Jockey Club board together with them.

Jonathan said, “Today we stand on the shoulders of giants”.

Jonathan has actually outdone the giants though in a sense as he could well have become the first owner to capture all of what used to be KZN’s four classics and he has now added a July exacta. Before the July he won the Gr 2 WSB Guineas and Gr 1 Daily News 2000 with Star Major and the Gr 2 WSB Fillies Guineas and Gr 2 Woolavington 2000 with Wish List, although the latter race is no longer a classic as it is now open to older horses.

He and Nancy praised Justin Snaith for the magnificent job he had done in preparing Note To Self and Wish List.

Jonathan Bloch was watching both horses in the race on Saturday and admitted he was screaming the house down. He said, “Then I spotted King Pelles running on and I thought, ‘Oh no, please don’t come and upset the applecart!'” The latter finished a 1,55 length third at 25/1 odds behind 11/2 shot Note To Self and the 9/2 chance favourite Wish List.

Nancy had also been watching both horses and said, “When I saw Richard (Fourie) going wide around the turn I thought ‘He knows he’s going to win.'”

Nancy had good reason for such a thought and added, “Futura was exactly the same as Note To Self in that he needed a fast run race and he was always flying at them in the finish. It was just when you moved was the most important think and that is why I think that was a very clever move by Richard, because Note To Self needs to go early as he is a big, long-striding individual.”

Fourie couldn’t have timed it better as he caught Wish List in the shadow of the post.

Nancy had been instrumental in spotting both Note To Self and Wish List at the National Yearling Sales with the help of one of her best friends, Snaith Racing employee Jenna le Roux. Jonathan Snaith no doubt provided input too.

Jonathan Bloch said, “My son Zac liked both of them on pedigree, so I went to look at them and liked both of them as individuals.”

Therefore, after Jonathan Snaith had signed for them for R300,000 and R700,00 respectively, Jonathan Bloch asked to to come in as a partner and Jonathan Snaith and Nancy readily agreed.

Justin Snaith has now won six Julys and joins Terrance Millard on that number. He is now just one behind the record seven won by the Hall Of Fame trainer Syd Laird.

The strength of the three-year-old crop had been questioned, with some saying they have been overrated, but they dominated the finish as Viva’s Liberte finished a 1,70 length fourth and could have snatched third from older horse King Pelles had he not been short of room late.

It was then a further 1,50 lengths back to the older horse Isivivane with Native Ruler close behind him and the rest of the field spread out like the washing.

The time of two minutes and 13.48 seconds was 34 seconds quicker than last year’s slow run race and chief stipendiary steward Lyall Hutcheson said it was one of the “cleanest” Julys in recent times.

Note To Self looks to be swimming in a sea of people (Candiese Lenferna Photography)

Andrew Harrison (Race Coast)

Justin Snaith is now one short of equaling the legendary Syd Laird’s record of seven July wins when he saddled the first two past the post in the R10 Million Hollywoodbets Durban July Gr 1 at Hollywoodbets Greyville today.

In a thrilling finish before a capacity crowd and in a one-two in joint owner Nancy Hossack’s colours, NOTE TO SELF got up to touch off the filly WISH LIST, and deny 59-year-old Andrew Fortune a race that he was hoping to bookend his career. Third was rank outsider KING PELLES with VIVA’S LIBERTE in the shallow end of the purse.

It was not to be for Fortune, although he would have had high hopes as WISH LIST burst out of the pack, racing over the subway, and looked to have the race in the bag. However, Richard Fourie who had been biding his time in the pack, produced NOTE TO SELF with a telling late run down the outside of the straight. The two fought out a tight finish with the gelding getting the better of the filly inside the last 100m.

Fortune was supremely confident before the race but in a gesture of sportsmanship, stretched out his hand to congratulate Fourie after crossing the line.

Surprisingly, top weight LEGAL COUNSEL made the pace but had done his job turning for home leaving stable mate, WISH LIST, to take up the cuddles. It looked to have been a well thought-out strategy for the filly before NOTE TO SELF arrived on the scene.

Fourie was circumspect when quizzed about his early move at the 800m mark and said, “I don’t know. I blacked out at the top of the straight.

There’s no better feeling than winning it the first time, but this is a great feeling. Just doing it in front of a capacity crowd at Greyville is such a rush. I can’t explain the sound when everybody is shouting at you in the middle. It’s like being in a canyon. It was just a lovely race and the win was as sweet as it can be.”

Snaith heaped praise on his charge NOTE TO SELF. “I heard a couple of people say ‘what has he done up to now,’ and I knew he was going to come to the fore at the right time, but we were always wondering if it was one year too early as he is still a very immature horse.

This past week I said to everybody that one can excuse his performance in the Daily News 2000; he was not well and had a temperature for two days after that, and I really had to nurse him and do a lot of work to make him feel better and get his coat right. And all of a sudden this week, in the last three days, he just took off. He was just a different horse and I knew that everyone was in trouble. He just walks around, he’s just a leopard, he is the most unassuming stunning individual and I knew that if he came right he would be the horse to beat in this field.”

NOTE TO SELF was bred by Varsfontein Stud and is owned by Jonathan Bloch, Jonathan Snaith and Nancy Hossack whose black and white colours were the first two past the post.

Tienie Prinsloo was not always confident that QUICKSTEPGAL would be at her best over 1600m when taking on the best, but it was confidence misplaced as she made short work of a high-class field in the Gr 1 Ridgemont Garden Province Stakes. It was always going to be a three-way contest and so it proved. QUICKSTEPGAL was always up with the pace and quickened smartly crossing the subway and was not for the catching. DOUBLE GRAND SLAM and MON PETIT CHERIE were left fighting it out for the minor money.

BUFFALO STORM CODY drifted alarmingly in the betting for the Gr 3 Post Merchants and although beaten he was not disgraced as JET FORCE put it all together. Des McLachlan is a rare visitor to KZN and Grant van Niekerk, a top rider but seemingly out of favour these days, was having his only ride on the day that should have been the office for astute followers of the game. Taking on the Gr 1 winning QUESTIONING at his last two starts over further. He will have sharpened up for this race and duly arrived, bursting out of the pack with a furlong to run. BUFFALO STORM CODY came wide into the straight but was not able to peg back JET FORCE who had got first run.

Zak Lloyd, fresh from a win at Royal Ascot, was on the winner’s podium after just his second ride in South Africa as he scored a bloodless victory on MAGIC VERSE in the Gr 3 Magical Zulu Kingdom 2200m as Justin Snaith got his afternoon off to the best of starts, winning three of the first four races on the card. It got a lot better later.

In a race run at no great pace, Lloyd had MAGIC VERSE well placed behind a pedestrian gallop and pressed for home early. The gelding responded willingly under minimum effort from the saddle and soon had the better of a game JOHNNY THE THIEF who stayed on ahead of OTTO LUYKEN for the minor money.

It was the turn of the heavily supported AHEAD OF THE FACTS in the 3000m Gr 3 Durban Gold Vase as Richard Fourie produced the favourite with a telling late run up the inside fence to have the race sewn up inside the last furlong.

After modest early fractions THE MIKADO went to the front and set the pace for stable companion SHOOT THE RAPIDS who was hard-held in second ahead of HOLDING THUMBS. All fell away in the straight as SHOOT THE RAPIDS went clear, but MASTER REDOUTE, who also found plenty of market support, came out to challenge, the two engaging in a ding-dong battle up the straight but Fourie slipped AHEAD OF THE FACTS up the inside rail and had something in hand, saluting the crowd, as he swept past his rivals.

Favourites were the order of the day leading into the Gr 2 Amusnet Golden Slipper where ALICE B TOKLAS found plenty of support, but it was not to be. PALACE OF ARVENIA, some time three wide on the turn, was given a confident ride by national log-leading rider Craig Zackey. Dean Kannemeyer seldom wants his runners up with the early pace and PALACE OF ARVENIA quickened well, coming wide into the straight and was not for the catching ALICE B TOKLAS was a tad unlucky as TOO FAST TO FIESTA hung in badly forcing Fourie to ease and switch, which may well have cost him the race as Sean Tarry’s filly finished off her race strongly for second.

VIBE CHECK got the favourites back on track as Vaughan Marshall’s charge made all the running in the Gr 2 Omoda Golden Horseshoe. Well supported in the betting, Sean Veale made the most of the mayor’s office draw and was in the front from the jump. He had a good lead coming into the straight but suddenly the two international riders, Zak Lloyd and Chad Schofield made a race of it as GREEN ENERGY and the filly SECRETARY BIRD shot out of the pack. However, VIBE CHECK held on and indications are that he will try his luck on the Gr 1 World Pool Moment of the Day Champion Stakes on HKJC Gold Cup Day.

Keagan de Melo is ecstatic as Quickstepgal produces her best to win the prestigious Gr 1 Ridgemont Garden Province Stakes, thus joining Wish List as a twice Gr 1-winning three-year-old  (Picture: Race Coast)

The Vercingetorix filly Quickstepgal has been superbly handled by former Kimberley trainer and now Summerveld trainer Tienie Prinsloo and she landed the second Gr 1 of her career at the Hollywoodbets Durban July meeting at Holywoodbets Greyville on Saturday when winning the prestigious Gr 1 wfa Ridgemont Garden Province Stakes over 1600m.

She came out of the race very well, but the Greenacres Trust (Marsh Shirtliff)-bred filly, who is owned by the Laurence Wernars family and Harry Willson is now going to be given a deserved holiday.

The big question is what she will do in her four-year-old season?

That is presuming she will stay in training, although there is not much left for her to prove, considering she has won seven of her 13 starts, including two Gr 1s, a Gr 2, a Gr 3 and a Listed race, and she has also had five Graded places for total earnings of R2,642,187.

The best option looks to be to stick to the three Gr 1 wfa miles around the country, the Maine Chance Farms Majorca at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth, the TAB Empress Club Stakes at Turffontein and the Garden Province at Hollywoodbets Greyville.

Tiene said she would not stay the 1800m of the Gr 1 Cartier Paddock Stakes.

He also revealed that sprints were likely out of the question as she liked to use her natural speed to run in a relaxed manner before quickening over 1400m to 1600m trips, while the flat out nature of a sprint fired her up a bit too much and did not do her any good in the preparation for her main game.

Prinsloo had been very confident in the buildup to Saturday and viewed her as a banker.

He became even more confident as the race panned out.

She can always be relied on to break well and she duly did.

Jockey Keagan de Melo than sat in a one out and one back position on the 7/2 shot and had her nice and relaxed with the fancied 5/2 chance Mon Petit Cherie
behind her and the 11/10 favourite Double Grand Slam behind that one.

De Melo did not chase the pacemaker Whistle The Tune when the latter went two or three lengths clear.

She was in the exact position Prinsloo liked to see her and he said, “When she quickens nobody is going to catch her.”

He added, “She doesn’t need to lead.”

She won the Gr 1 WSB Cape Fillies Guineas from the front, but Tienie said her burst was even more effective if held up just off the pace.

De Melo could afford to just sit on her until the 300m mark before getting to work and it was soon clear that the running on Mon Petite Cherie and Double Grand Slam were not going to catch her.

She crossed the line 1,30 lengths clear of Mon Petite Cherie with Double Grand Slam a head further back in third.

“That was the Quickstepgal I know,” said Tienie.

Tiene was glad for De Melo, who had got to know the filly well though three placed runs, before winning on her in the Gr 2 HKJC World Pool Tibouchina Stakes over 1400m last time out.

Tienie should get a lot of the accolades as he knows all the ins and outs of this filly and how exactly to prepare her.

In a fun moment on the course owner Laurence Wernars spoke in the winning interview, something he never does, but he had promised his daughters that the day they were present on course for a Gr 1 win he would do the interview.

Quickstepgal gave the champion sire Vercingetorix his 31st stakes win of the season achieved with 21 horses.

He is in a race against time to break his own SA record of 23 stakes winners (of 33 races) he set last season.

Tienie signed for the Fire Away half-sister to Quickstepgal, Victory Blaze, at last week’s KZN Yearling Sale after securing her for R600,000, which was as opposed to the R450,000 Quickstepgal went for and the R1,3 million her full-sister went for, both at the same Sale in 2024 and 2025 respectively.

Jet Force (blue colours) holds on to win the Gr 3 Post Merchants (Picture: Race Coast)

Cape trainer Des McLachlan scored the first KZN Graded race win of his career on Saturday when landing the Gr 3 Post Merchants with Jet Force and it was his best KZN result since his Gr 1 Cape Guineas winner Ethno Centric placed in the Gr 1 SA Guineas in 2001    .

McLachlan had formed a prolific partnership with Grant van Niekerk before the latter left to ride in Maurtitius and Van Niekerk flew over to ride Jet Force on Saturday.

It was Grant’s only ride on the day and he rode a pearler.

Jet Force was backed in from 20/1 to 5/1, which was not surprising as he came in with a record of two wins in three starts over the 1200m trip and his recent form over further was either wins or performances where not disgraced against the best of the best.

Jumping from a good draw of four Jet Force did not get the best of breaks but Van Niekerk managed too get him forward enough to find a position just backward of midfield.

After lifting his head momentarily he did settle well once he had cover.

At the top of the straight he still had plenty to do and had about five lengths to make up.

However, a nice gap opened for him and he ran on well through it to hit the front 100m out before fending off Buffalo Storm Cody and Tenango, beating them by half-a-length and 0,55 lengths respectively.

He had earlier overtaken the 7/2 favourite Buffalo Storm Cody as the latter was battling to get going on the outside. However, when Buffalo did find his big stride he was eating up the ground and, like last year, he put in a good preparation for the Gr 1 wfa Mercury Sprint over the same course and distance.

Des said he would also consider running him in the Mercury Sprint, which takes place three weeks after the Post Merchants on the 25th of July.

He will only be 2kg worse off than Buffalo Bll Cody in the Mercury, so on paper will have a chance.

He has duly been nominated and is sitting with a fair draw at the time of writing of nine out of 26 horses still standing their ground, although there is a draw reversal against him with Buffalo Storm Cody as the latter was drawn nine on Saturday and is now drawn eight in the Mercury.

Jet Force will also be 2kg worse off with Tenango, who ran on superbly on Saturday from the back after jumping from draw five.

Tenango has landed a plum draw of two in the Mercury.

The Beaumont Stud-bred four-year-old Master Of My Fate gelding Jet Force was the last lot on the November Two Year Old Sale of 2023 and Des landed him for R350,000.

Des always goes to the stud farms before the Sales to look at horses and revealed, “I liked him all along and he just grew on you and grew on you, there was improvement all the time.”

He added, “Horses find you.”

He said, “He took a while to get going as he was very difficult, so we decided to cut him. We just gave him time to mature, we weren’t in a rush and he has done us proud up til now.”

Jet Force started his career in the February of his three-year-old year with a win over 1200m at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth and has won seven out of his 13 starts to date, including the Listed Jet Master Stakes over 1600m and the Gr 3 Variety Club Mile.

Van Niekerk has ridden him to five of his victories.

Des’s long term aim for Jet Force is to go give him a break in Cape Town and then go for the Green Point and the L’Ormarins King’s Plate.

He concluded, “He was still a little bit immature in this year’s Green Point and King’s Plate, he was very, very green, he didn’t know what it was all about as the Green Point was only his third run around the turn. It was quite difficult for him, a lot for him to take on and he didn’t disgrace himself. I think he has got the ability to be competitive in features.”

Jet Force is owned by Messrs Denis Le Breton & A L Taylor, Mr K & Miss K Geemooi & Mrs G C Hutchinson.

Johannesburg, South Africa — The Wernars Family, D Chinsammy & TKP Racing (Nom: Trevelen Pillay)’s ERROL FLYNN (Master Of My Fate- What A Player) rewarded his supporters with a convincing victory in the final leg of the 2026 Highveld 3yo Winter Series, the TAB Sea Cottage Stakes (Gr3).

Content to track the field from the back of the pack, Keagan de Melo sent the 3yo son of Master Of My Fate on his way as the field turned for home. Making their move up the the inside rail, Errol Flynn made up ground on long-time leader Chronicle King, drawing level at the 350m mark. Chronicle King offered brief resistance, but Errol Flynn had the race firmly in hand, asserting his authority to salute the judge 1.75 lengths ahead of long-time leader Chronicle King in a time of 111.14s. Got The Feeling (Fanie Bronkhorst / K Strydom) finished 3rd.

The son of Master Of My Fate was bred by Sandra Michelle Ajax & Target Acquired of Paardeberg Stud. A R400,000 purchase from the 2024 BSA National Yearling Sale, Errol Flynn now has 5 wins and a place from seven career outings and earnings of R497,801.

Full result below.

Race-7 R 200,000 1600m 14:25

TAB SEA COTTAGE STAKES (Gr3)

Stake Breakdown

Total Stakes: R 250,000.00

1st: 1st R148,437.50, 2nd R47,500, 3rd R23,750, 4th R11,875, 5th R5,937.50

Horse Age Sex Dr Wgt LBH Time MR Trainer Jockey

1 Errol Flynn 3 G 5 58.0 111.14 108 J Soma K de Melo

2 Chronicle King 3 C 4 60.0 1.75 111.44 115 C/T Dawson G Lerena

3 Got The Feeling 3 G 3 58.0 4.55 96.86 93 F Bronkhorst K Strydom

4 Copper Eagle 3 G 6 58.0 4.75 97.09 110 R Klaasen C Habib

5 World Of Royalty 3 G 1 56.5 7.85 97.23 92 W C Marwing R Venniker

6 Scarlett Heart 3 F 2 55.5 9.25 97.430 108 F Bronkhorst J Penny

7 Surprise Party 3 F 7 55.5 9.65 97.78 86 P Matchett P Mxoli

Beware has been tipped to win the last race (Picture: Hollywoodbets Archives)

The Hollywoodbets Durbanville meeting on Tuesday is headlined by an A Stakes event over 1250m in which the promising Lucinda Woodruff-trained Beware can go close in his first run as a gelding.

The three-year-old Rafeef gelding has performed well over sprints trips, but his two wins have been over 1500m and 1600m respectively. Running fresh over this trip from a draw of three out of eight under Sean Veale should see him right there. King Regent does have some issues jumping well but is in fine form and from draw two should be a big runner. The US Of A has talent and is in fair form but does have 2,25 lengths to make up on King Regent from their meeting in the Winter Sprint over 1200m.

In the first leg of the Pick 6 over 1400m Spanish World can fight it out with Odds And Evens with preference for the former as she is drawn well over a step up in trip she will relish. Odds And Evens will also appreciate the step up in trip but has the widest draw in the six horse field.

In the next race over 1800m Liefling has a tricky draw of eight, but he will enjoy the further step up in trip and being by Hawwaam he is open to more improvement. Frequent Traveller is quite exposed but is consistent and can earn another cheque from a good draw over a suitable trip.

In the fifth race over 1250m The Big Bang has been showing some improvement and coulld make a bold bid despite having to carry topweight of 60.5kg. Protector Of Peace has run some good races and over a suitable distance and fair draw he can do well with the 60kg being alleviated to some extent by a 2,5kg claimer up.

In the sixth over 1600m Superhero has good form over this sort of trip and can go close off a competitive mark of 71. Devel-A-Saint is consistent and tries the 1600m trip again, which he could get from pole position.

In the seventh over 1250m One Magic won well on debut and could follow up off a reasonable mark of 87. Avignon rates the main danger.

In the first race over 1000m the one to beat could be Onthewingsofadove, a What A Winter half-sister to a Gr 2-winning speedster, as she ran an eyecatching second on debut and is well drawn.

In the second over 1250m Mordechai is the one to beat having made a good debut and he is well dawn.