Gold Cup now Aug1

Given the soaking rain over the past 24 hours, and the forecast of further heavy rains over the coming weekend, the prognosis for racing to go ahead at Greyville on Saturday is extremely poor.



Against that background, and in the best interests of all affected parties and stakeholders, Gold Circle has decided to postpone the Super Saturday race meeting, featuring the eLan Property Group Gold Cup and three other Grade 1 races, in its entirety to Saturday 1 August.



The race meeting originally scheduled for 1 August will now take place on Sunday 2 August.



"With the support of Event World and all our service providers we are pleased to confirm that all marquee infrastructure will remain at Greyville for the delayed race meeting thus affording the 17 Charities the opportunity to continue with their much needed fund-raising activities on 1 August," said Racing and Marketing Executive Graeme Hawkins.



"All bookings in the various venues will also be transferred to the new date and Gold Circle would appreciate clients advising the company of any cancellations," added Hawkins.



"The decision to postpone was not made lightly as we are well aware that the official NHA statistics, which determine the Championship in respect of various categories such as Champion Stallion, Champion Breeders, Champion Trainer, Champion Jockey etc will be finalized when the Season closes on 31 July, " said Hawkins.



Fortunately the Championship in respect of the Trainer and Jockey is a done deal, with Sean Tarry and Gavin Lerena holding unassailable leads, but Super Saturday could have played a major role in other categories - in particular the General Sires Log, which now seems likely to be headed by Captain Al.



The Equus Awards panel will however consider the performances of horses running on Super Saturday when voting on the outcome of the various equine categories which are not governed by official NHA statistics.



The ever popular Gold Circle Racing Masters golf tournament at the Wild Coast Sun, which has attracted a record entry of 110 golfing enthusiasts from amongst the racing fraternity, will go ahead as planned from Sunday 26 to Wednesday 29 July.



"The long term weather forecast for next week is good with sunshine predicted from Monday all the way through to Sunday 2 August," concluded Hawkins.

tough decision but the right one, weather in Durban over the last few days has been terrible, even though there's bright sunshine now ...

Gold Cup back to its original date.

Sammy Silver wrote: Gold Cup back to its original date.

Correct..................was traditionally the first Sat in August!

Question, would Balance Sheet lose the 3 year old WFA allowance as technically he would be a 4 year when the race is run?

All the 2 year olds will be 3 as well

bayern wrote: Question, would Balance Sheet lose the 3 year old WFA allowance as technically he would be a 4 year when the race is run?

good question

Good question there Bayern. Checked up and they will run off their carded weights. It has happened where meetings have been postponed a few days and it is into a new month and the WFA scales have changed but they still ran off the same weights. The same when due to rain a distance is changed to 2000m from 2400m. The weights do not change.

Guys please advise if all the win, and multiple bets for Saturday be cancelled, and do we need to re take all our bets with the new prices. Or will the bets stand till next week.

Due to the fact that the meeting has been postponed to a date, more than 48 hours away, all Bookmakers bets will be Null and Void for all races, including the Gold Cup - unless your Bookmaker had an Antepost book for the Gold Cup.
Therefore you would get a refund and have to take bets again.
Any multiples into the meeting would be paid out based on the legs that have run.
Not sure about Tote bets.

We just posted this on the Hollywood Facebook page regarding the Gold Cup and Greyville Meeting:

Please note that the Gold Cup and Greyville race meeting scheduled to take place this Saturday 25th July has been postponed to next week - Saturday the 1st of August 2015. Please note that ALL bets already struck with Hollywood - fixed odds and tote/open bets - are NULL & VOID, and are due for refund. Multiples containing legs with the Gold Cup will be scratched.

Please strike your bets again on the new Greyville meeting on the new date (1st August) if you wish to play the same bets.

Please note we did not lay any Ante-Post bets (before the final field was announced), so all bets struck have been scratched. As stated above, please strike your bets again.

this move will mean that stan elley will have to renew his trainers licence for the new season as normally no trainer or owner can run horses after 31st july if they havent renewed.