Picture: Walk Of Fame being led in (Wayne Marks).

Dynasty Lands 81st Stakes Winner

PEDIGREE PROFILE -WALK OF FAME

Sarah Whitelaw

Saturday’s racemeeting at Kenilworth proved a memorable one for descendants
of former Horse Of The Year Dynasty.

Not only did the latter’s champion son Legislate supply Saturday’s G3 Econorisk Final Fling Stakes winner So Flawless, but Dynasty’s daughter Walk Of Fame brought the house down when scoring an emotional win in Saturday’s G3
Western Province Nomads Champagne Stakes.

In the process, the four-year-old became her deceased sire’s 81st stakes winner.

Walk Of Fame, a R1 600 000 buy from the 2019 Cape Premier Yearling Sale, is one of five South African stakes winners to have emerged from Dynasty’s
current crop of four-year-olds. Other black type winners from this crop include G3 World Sports Betting Pocket Power Stakes winner Crimson King, Kenilworth Cup victor Salvator Mundi, Ormond Ferraris Oaks Trial heroine Aryaam, and the very exciting One Way Traffic. The latter made a big impression when running out a facile winner of the G3 Vodacom 2200 on
Hollywoodbets Durban July day earlier in the month.

While Dynasty will forever be remembered as the sire of such star males as Futura, Irish Flame, Legislate, Jackson and Act Of War, he has also enjoyed tremendous success as a sire of high-class fillies and mares. His list of
notable daughters include champions Beach Beach, Bela-Bela, Just Sensual and
Lady In Black, and fellow G1 winners Front And Centre and Lady Of The House

However, Walk Of Fame owes plenty of her ability not only to her sire, but also her dam and broodmare sire.

She is the second stakes winner produced by G3 Fillies Mile/G3 Three Troikas Stakes winner Hollywoodboulevard, who inflicted a memorable defeat on subsequent Horse Of The Year Igugu when victorious in the 2010 Emperors Palace Ready To Run Cup.

Also runner up, to Igugu,  in the G2 Gauteng Fillies Guineas,
Hollywoodboulevard, who won five of her 15 starts and over R1.314 million in stakes, is also dam of Listed In Full Flight Handicap winner On That
Boulevard (Trippi).

She was sired by G1 Dubai World Cup winner Street Cry -whose 130 plus stakes winners included such famed champions as Zenyatta, Winx, Street Sense and
South African Horse Of The Year Oh Susanna.

A son of outstanding sire and broodmare sire Machiavellian, the late Street Cry has become an important broodmare sire in his own right. Among the more
than 100 stakes winners produced by Street Cry mares are US champion, and G1
Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, Vino Rosso, Australian G1 winners Lyre, September Run and Farnan and G1 Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Diversify.

Hollywoodboulevard’s success is a true compliment to Street Cry, as neither of her first two dams won a race between them.

Picture: Jet Dark is out to retain his HKJC World Pool Champions Cup crown (Wayne Marks).

Jet Dark Ready For Big Run In Champions Cup, Says Snaith

Picture: Baaeed Wins The Queen Anne Stakes At Royal Ascot (Handout).

Sussex Stakes Looks A Formality As Brilliant Baaeed Goes To Goodwood For Final Start At A Mile

At long odds-on, BAAEED is not really a betting proposition but he is hard to oppose on what is likely to be his last run at a mile. In the absence of 2000 Guineas winner Coroebus, the main danger appears to be last year’s winner Alcohol Free, back to form over shorter in the July Cup.

Picture: Kyprios ridden by Ryan Moore (right) just holds on from Stradivarius in the Goodwood Cup. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA

Kyprios Denies Heroic Stradivarius In Thrilling Goodwood Cup

Gold Cup winner at Royal Ascot holds off popular stayer

Runner-up and four-time Goodwood Cup winner will race on vows owner

Greg Wood at Goodwood (theguardian.com)

Three outstanding stayers produced a compelling drama through the final three furlongs of the Goodwood Cup here on Tuesday and though Stradivarius came up a neck short in his attempt to win the race for the fifth time, he did more than enough to keep him on the track for another race at least.

“We are not going to say goodbye, not when he is at the top of his game and ran like that today,” Bjorn Nielsen, Stradivarius’s owner, said after his narrow defeat by Kyprios. “We will go on for at least one more.”

A head-to-head between Stradivarius and Trueshan, the most successful stayers of recent years, on ground that suited the pair of them had been postponed several times over the last couple of seasons, because the going was either too fast or too slow.

When it finally arrived, neither horse had quite enough to overhaul Kyprios, after Ryan Moore sent last month’s Ascot Gold Cup winner into a narrow lead well over a quarter of a mile out, but few of those watching from the stands will ever forget the thrill of watching them try.

Trueshan and Hollie Doyle were first to challenge Kyprios, the 6-4 favourite, on his outside, before a roar swept through the crowd as Andrea Atzeni moved Stradivarius into a position to challenge towards the far rail. He was within half a length of the leader at the furlong pole and pressed him all the way to the line, but Kyprios showed a champion’s courage to keep him at bay.

The focus was on the horses rather than their riders afterwards, a refreshing change after last month’s Gold Cup when Frankie Dettori, Stradivarius’s regular jockey, had a troubled run aboard the eight-year-old which cost him the ride here. Nielsen, though, did hint that Dettori might be back on board if Stradivarius heads for next month’s Lonsdale Stakes at York.

“York would be on the cards,” Nielsen said. “The long straight there suits him. Frankie has handled him well there and I don’t know if he will ride, I need to discuss that with the trainer. It was classy from Frankie to come out before the race and wish Andrea luck after all these years.”

This may prove to have been Stradivarius’s last meeting with Kyprios, whose next race is likely to be the Irish St Leger in September, but Aidan O’Brien’s four-year-old seems likely to be a dominant force in the staying division for several seasons to come.

“He is only ever in the gear that you want him,” O’Brien said. “He is always keeping plenty and is a horse that loves a battle.

“I’d say there’s a lot more to come, he loves racing and is easy on himself. Those type of horses are very special, a horse who stays like that and has that class.”

Picture: Gavin Lerena will captain the Gauteng Gigimaz In The Global Team Challenge (https://www.gthracing.co.za/)

The Centaurian Takes Aim At Sex Allowances

Zimbabwean racing columnist disagrees with sex allowances and has an alternate suggestion

Was It Broken?

As a dyed-in-the-wool philogynist – Writes The Centaurist – I was surprised to learn that, out of the blue, lady jockeys in Southern Africa are going to be afforded 1.5kg weight allowances – because they are ladies.

Then I went on to read about the reasons for this change which implies ladies are lesser beings than men.

In making such decisions we must ask ourselves “What outcomes are we seeking to achieve by making such a sex allowance?”

Are ladies less able jockeys than men – do we need to level up the playing field a bit? Well no – as Hollie Doyle and many other jockettes around the world amply testify.

Are we short of jockeys – do we need to find a way to encourage more candidates to join the sport? Well no – as a good number of existing jockeys will testify – many just can’t secure enough rides and thus struggle to make a reasonable living.

Are there some conditions associated with becoming a jockey which are prejudicial to women? Well no – and if there are, they should be removed – giving a sex allowance is not the answer.

For me the system was never broken so why are we trying to fix it?  – and in a way which makes lady jockeys into second-class citizens when, in fact, equine sports around the world allow ladies to compete on level terms with men, something which should be applauded – not messed around with. Apart from snooker and darts, equine sports allow us to recognise the real potential of our ladies.

And if the real reason for providing a sex allowance for ladies is to see a lot more female jockeys riding, then another option is far more equitable. As we all know, ladies are typically smaller and lighter than men – what we should be doing is to address the issue of minimum riding weights. I have always favoured keeping minimum riding weight at 46 kg. If we went back to that, and did a bit of constructive promotional work, I think we could achieve the results sought by the intervention and, in addition, we would create many more opportunities for horses to race competitively – with a handicap weight spread from 46kg to 60kg – or even higher – thus reducing the occasions where horses compete under MR sufferance.

Come on lady jockeys – do the right thing, and do not support this nonsense.

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Picture: Craig Zackey went from pillar to post on the Paul Peter-trained Midnight Badger (Warm White Night) to clinch his treble today (JC Photos).

Craig Zackey On A Nelson

Today’s Question

Which horse is being honoured in this Australian postage stamp?

Picture: 1978 Australian stamp (Pininterest).

Hollywoodbets Scottsville July 27 Fields

Bernborough (born 1939) was one of the five inaugural inductees into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame, alongside other turf notables Carbine, Phar Lap, Kingston Town, and Tulloch.

He first raced under the ownership of A.E.Hadwin. A Queensland trainer, J. Roberts, then leased the horse. He came to prominence racing at Toowoomba’s country racecourse Clifford Park when ridden to his first six wins by Les Watterson. Bernborough only raced at Toowoomba in Queensland as he was barred from racing at metropolitan tracks because of ownership doubts. His racing colours were orange, purple sleeves, and black cap. His trainer was Harry Plant. When he was six years old, he was moved to Sydney and following his sale to A.O. Romano for 2,600 guineas, his nominations were accepted. Then he began a winning streak of 15 races, despite always carrying welter burdens. His wins included the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington carrying 9 st 13 lb (63 kg).

Later, in the Doomben Ahern Memorial (today the Group 1 Doomben 10000) over 1400m, he produced a sensational winning finish which some say has never had an equal. Against a quality field of 26, carrying 10st 5lbs., Bernborough came from 23rd place at the final turn to win by two lengths in record time.

The handicappers thus lumped him with 10 stone 11 pounds (68.5kg) for the Doomben Cup (Group 1 over 2000m) for which he was backed up. It did not stop him winning cosily.

He is still the only horse in history to win both the Doomben 10000 and Doomben Cup in the same year. His two wins at Doomben in May 1946 remain two of the greatest wins in Australian racing history.

He started 37 times for 26 wins, 2 seconds, and 1 third.

On 2 November 1946, Bernborough had his last race in the LKS MacKinnon Stakes but had to be pulled up after tearing sesamoid ligaments. The great mare Flight, who had finished second to Bernborough on many occasions, went on to win.

After recovering from his injuries, Bernborough was sold for a large sum to movie producer Louis B. Mayer for stud duties in the USA, where he went on to moderate success as a stallion at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. Here he sired the winners of more than $4,500,000 in prize money and was placed high on the Leading sire in North America list.