DATE: Saturday, 4 July 2015, Day and Night
AGE/ CONDITION: Open MR / Conditions Race over 2200m
ENTRIES: Entries, which must be accompanied by a non-refundable fee of R2280 for each horse entered, close at 11:00am on Wednesday, 15 April
FIRST DECLARATION: Close 11:00am Monday, 11 May 2015 – Fee R 3420 non-refundable
FIRST SUPP ENTRIES: Close 11:00am Tuesday, 12 May 2015 – Fee R 12540 non-refundable
SECOND DECLARATION: Close 11:00am Monday, 1 June 2015 – Fee R 5700 non-refundable
FINAL SUPP ENTRIES: Close 11:00am Monday, 8 June 2015 – Fee R 25 080 non-refundable
WEIGHTS PUBLISHED: Tuesday, 9 June 2015
FINAL DECLARATION: Declarations close 11:00am Monday, 22 June 2015 – Fee R 28 500 (Refunded if not selected to run).
FINAL FIELD AND DRAW: Announcement of the Final Field and Barrier Draws will take place on Tuesday, 23 June 2015.
FINAL FIELD: 20 horses will be carded for this event (16 Horses + 4 Reserves). The Reserves to be scratched by 8:15am Friday, 3 July 2015. Elimination will be at the sole and unfettered discretion of the Company.
PUBLIC GALLOPS: It shall be a condition of acceptance that all runners participate in public gallops scheduled for Thursday, 25 June 2015, failing which, the horse will, in the absence of exceptional and unforeseen circumstances which the Company shall in its sole discretion declare as such, be declared ineligible to run in the Vodacom Durban July. Further, the Company reserves the right in its sole discretion to allow a horse stabled out of province on the day of the gallops to work out in the province where stabled prior to 25 June 2015 provided that the workout is filmed and screened on 25 June 2015.
2014 Vodacom Durban July
Horse: Legislate
Jockey: Richard Fourie
Trainer: Justin Snaith
Owner: Mr W J C Mitchell, Drakenstein Stud (Nom: Mrs G A Rupert) & Newbury Racing (Pty) Ltd (Nom: Mr D E Evans)
Breeder: Cheveley Stud
ABOUT THE RACE
It sneaks up on you and spreads like wildfire to soon engulf the entire country. You don’t know you’ve got it till you start searching for more and more information and the desire for greater knowledge becomes a passion.
It is the annual outbreak of “July Fever” which makes its regular appearance in mid-April and grows in intensity as the days pass, becoming a national epidemic and rejecting all known cures but one.
That cure will become available on the afternoon of the first Saturday of July at Greyville Racecourse in Durban when South Africa’s best thoroughbreds storm down the home straight to the finish of the R3,5 million, Grade 1 Vodacom Durban July.
The cure is instantaneous, whether you are among the over 50 000 people who cram the confines of Greyville Racecourse or the millions of others who will watch the annual spectacle on television.
For maximum effect, however, there is nothing better than to be at the heart of the excitement, among the crowds who line the track, who relax in the many restaurant facilities or enjoy the day as guests in the corporate suites and the numerous venues in Greyville’s legendary Marquee Village.
ROLL OF HONOUR
2014
One of the most high drama and a dramatic outcome of the Vodacom Durban July in recent history, with the final result in the hands stipendiary stewards. Outsider Wylie Hall and the second favourite Legislate fought a desperate duel over the final 600m with the pair coming together on at least four occasions. As a result of an objection lodged by the jockey of Legislate, the board upheld the objection and rewarded Africa’s Greatest race to Legislate, thus demoting Wylie Hall to second.
* At the end of the 2013/14 season Legislate was awarded the covenant Equus Horse of the year and will be back this coming Champions Season to defend his title in hopefully a less controversial manner.
