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Only Six to Contest East Cape Guineas

Danie Toerien

The R250,000 Bryanston Auctioneers East Cape Guineas (Listed) over 1600m to be contested on Friday 20 March has attracted a rather disappointing field of just six runners.

Alan Greeff will saddle four of the runners and Juan Nel and Dean Smith one each.

When declarations closed at 10:00 on Monday 16 March, a total of ten runners had been scratched from the 15 original entries.

However, by 10:19 the Smith-trained Supreme Judge was “unscratched” and declared a runner.

The East Cape Guineas is also the second leg of the East Cape Sophomore Challenge.

The final field, in order horse, weight, merit rating, jockey, and trainer, is:

Action America 60 – 80 S’manga Khumalo, Juan Nel

Diamond Jim 60 – 76 Kendall Minnie, Alan Greeff

Anotherdanceforme 58 – 110 Richard Fourie, Alan Greeff

Augusta Rosso 58 – 86 Luyolo Mxothwa, Alan Greeff

Silva City 58 – 99 Ryan Munger, Alan Greeff

Supreme Judge 60 – 78 Craig Zackey, Dean Smith

 

This article was originally published on TAB and is reposted here with permission.

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Danie Toerien is a professional journalist with more than 25 years’ experience in mainstream media in South Africa. He is a specialist business and sports writer, focusing on horse racing for the last eight years. Danie specializes in racing predictions for some of the country’s leading daily newspapers like The Sowetan, The Citizen, and The Herald. Whenever time and budget allow, he enjoys travelling – especially to explore the countries with a history dating back to the Roman Empire.

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