There were nine supplementary entries among the four Grade 1 races at Greyville on Super Saturday, 25 July 2015, including three from the Mike de Kock stable in the R600 000 Premier’s Champion Stakes for Juveniles.
Having won a good race over 3 000m in a pinnacle stakes event at Turffontein recently, trainer Dominic Zaki has entered Storm Warning for the R1.25-million eLan Property Group Gold Cup adding additional spice to a very competitive field potential for the marathon race over 3 200m.
The R1-million Champion’s Cup over 1 800m has attracted two additional entries with Sean Tarry nominating his versatile performer Willow Magic that finished second in the Rising Sun Gold Challenge and followed it up with a gutsy third in the Post Merchants.
Mike Azzie, who has always had a high record for Deputy Jud and was rewarded when he ran a good second in the SA Derby, believes his charge can do a lot better than his unplaced runs in the Daily News 2000 and the Vodacom Durban July and is looking for a run in this final Grade 1 event of the season.
Alec Laird has scratched Bezanova from the race.
Among the three colts entered by De Kock for the Premier’s Champion Stakes are two that are unraced. Astral Promise is a son of Silvano and Kinaan is the progeny of internationally-famed stallion Galileo. His third supplementary entry is the Silvano colt Kahaylaan that finished unplaced in his only start.
Sean Tarry has supplemented his Captain Al colt Captain’s Causeway into the Premier’s Champion stakes. The colt was an easy winner of his only start on the sand at the Vaal. He has also supplemented his Trippi filly Old Em into the Thekwini Stakes. She has run three times winning second time out and finishing third by less than half a length behind Shivering Sea in her last outing.
