While in Melbourne to attend the Asian Racing Conference, 4Racing CEO Fundi Sithebe this morning had the opportunity to visit the Griffiths De Kock Racing stables at Cranbourne Training Complex and to meet with trainers Robbie Griffiths and Mathew De Kock, who are flying the SA flag high Down Under.
Horses with SA-based owners in the stable include a Justify filly owned by Mary Slack and Mike De Kock, Drakenstein Stud’s Frankel filly Let’sbefrankbaby, who won third time out (and first time out as a three-year-old) back in August, and Arun Chadha and Warne Rippon’s ASSM Syndicate’s Catch Twentytwo, well know to South Africans as the winner of the Dingaans and Tony Ruffel Stakes.
Catch Twentytwo ran three times in England and managed a fourth place finish in a Listed event at Windsor.
He has run twice in Australia for Griffiths and De Kock, both over 1400m at Flemington and Sandown respectively and both times under Callan Murray, but he was unplaced in both starts.
He will be competing in this Saturday’s Black Caviar Lightning Race Day, which is the first race day at Flemington included on the World Pool calendar.
