This is how an odds on shot should win

Was at all Divine Acts wins with the owners
Great times and remember on debut " the more they ask the more it gives"
I am sure that was the fastest time he ever recorded

I dont know about fastet time but it was impresive

The next most visually impressive horse i can think f was




Mark Anthony winning the met

pirates Wrote:

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> im sure johny macreedy trained helenita?could it
> have been bombastic or bombshell?i recall flash
> attack winning at clwd by 16lengths


Long before my time but I do remember in the 1990's that this Helenita was the broodmare of Little Ballerina and Trojan Belle. Little Ballerina won the Cape Guineas beating the colts.

May not have been Helenita - could have been Little Helen or something like that.

The picture that will forever endear me to the the sport of horseracing...

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Yukon Gold....

Anyone remember a horse called Peralta? - I remember the name but cannot recall much else except that I think it was a speed machine?

A very fast 1000m horses ............backed one day at CWD drawn 1,but one of those days that the outside was far superior...........thought they had gone mad.
Result the horse jumped and headed diagonally for outside rail (no 200m rule in those days)..........broke the course record ..........one of those races you don't forget!

I remember the name, but battling to place it in the context with it's rivals....

colins Wrote:

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> Craig - gee testing the memory - the name that
> springs to mind is Helenita but I could be totally
> wrong - I have the pic somewhere - incidentally it
> was one of those days that they had a hurdle race
> and the going was pretty soft.


any references to the hurdle races....? I have these faint memories....but I never got to see one because I was a schoolboy those days and not allowed to attend the races....they were in Maritzburg? Somehow getting The Malster tangled up in one of them too....:S

colins Wrote:

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> Not on debut but I can remember a horse of Brian
> Cunningham winning by about 30 lengths at a
> midweek meeting at Scotsville over I think 1200
> meters - I think I still have a pic - will need to
> find it.

not the same one, but something similar...

A quote from Stephen Jupp... wordpress.freeracer.co.za/2011/12/stephen-jupp/
The best filly he sat on was Silver Lining, trained by Albie Going. She was by Silverware from Sure Sign ans Stephen tells. “She won her Maiden by 15 lengths, then finished a close second to Little Mo giving her fifteen lengths at the top of the straight, then placed to colts like Tudor Blue and Fuzzy Rag before she broke down. She was amazing.’’

I think that there are some pics of the hurdle races in some of my Duffs volumes - will check the weekend and see if I can post something - I remember David Payne entering one of his stayers but for the life of me cannot remember the name or who rode it.