Snaith sextet top entries for Daily News 2000
Two-time Grade 1 winner Eight On Eighteen heads up field for R2m race.
Runners from the Justin Snaith stable dominate the entry for the Grade 1 Daily News 2000 at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday.
There are 11 runners entered in the R2-million race for three-year-olds and six of them come from Snaith Racing.
Of course, leading the sextet is Cape Town Met and Cape Derby winner Eight On Eighteen, who is likely to go off as a hot favourite for this race. The Lancaster Bomber colt had a perfect warm-up for this race when finishing a 0.60-length second behind stable companion Sail The Seas in the Grade 2 WSB Guineas over 1600m at this course.
Interestingly, Snaith has already declared three of his runners for the race and other than Eight On Eighteen, he has Native Ruler with JP van der Merwe up and Makazole, to be ridden by Andrew Fortune.
Once again, Richard Fourie will be on Eight On Eighteen.
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Another runner of interest is Fabian Habib-trained Confederate, who has not been seen in action since winning the Grade 2-1 SA Classic over 1800m at Turffontein on 1 March. He kept going resolutely to hold off Fire Attack, who went on to win the Grade 1 Premier's Champion Challenge four weeks later, by 0.70 lengths.
Also run at the meeting will be the Grade 2 Tote Woolavington 2000, which is no longer restricted to three-year-olds and is open to all fillies and mares.
Spumante Dolce, winner of the Grade 2 Wilgerbosdrift Gauteng Fillies Guineas, has been entered to run in both races and it will be interesting to see which of the two trainers Mike and Mathew de Kock choose.
This race has got a strong entry of 19 runners so that should be quite a competitive event.
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Entries for the R2-million Daily News 2000 (Grade 1) over 2000m
5 CONFEDERATE (F P Habib) 60.0
11 EIGHT ON EIGHTEEN (J S Snaith) 60.0
4 FIELD MARSHAL (F Robinson) 60.0
2 GRAN CANARIA (J S Snaith) 60.0
7 MAKAZOLE (J S Snaith) 60.0
3 NATIVE RULER (J S Snaith) 60.0
1 OKAVANGO (J S Snaith) 60.0
9 ON MY HONOUR (G S Kotzen) 60.0
10 PARISIAN WALKWAY (A G Laird) 60.0
12 REGULATION (J S Snaith) 60.0
6 SPUMANTE DOLCE (M/M de Kock) 57.5
Entries for the R500,000 Tote Woolavington 2000 (Grade 2) (Fillies & Mares) over 2000m
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