CAPE RACING LAUNCHES INNOVATIVE JUVENILE PROGRAMME

CAPE RACING LAUNCHES INNOVATIVE JUVENILE PROGRAMME

Following the recent announcement of increased prize money levels in the Western Cape, Cape Racing is excited to announce the launch of a rejuvenated juvenile programme.
The first sighting for the juveniles will be the annual 900m dashes for both colts and fillies at the end of November. These races will lead up to two newly created juvenile events on Guineas Day which is being run on the 17th of December.
The Commonwealth Cup will be run at juvenile plate conditions for colts and geldings while the Summer Coronation will be run for the fillies. These two races will carry a prize of R200 000 each.

The most exciting news is the formation of a 3 leg Summer Juvenile Series. The series will be made up as follows:
1st Leg:
- Trippi Stakes, L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate Day: 7 January 2023
- Increased stake from R100 000 in 2022, up to R350 000 in 2023
2nd Leg:
- The City of Cape Town Summer Juveniles Stakes (Listed), World Sports Betting Cape Town Met Day: 28 January 2023
- Increased stake from R175 000 in 2022, up to R500 000 in 2023
3rd Leg:
- The Cape Racing Cape of Good Hope Nursery (Gr3), Jonsson Workwear Cape Derby Day: 25 February 2023
- Increased stake from R250 000 in 2022, up to R750 000 in 2023

In total, the Summer Juvenile Series has R1 600 000 on offer, a vast increase from the R525 000 for the three races last season.

Head of Racing Operations Justin Vermaak explained, “The juvenile offering needed a total rethink and a major cash injection. A core issue around some of the field size problems we are experiencing is that horses on average are just taking too long to race. Horses sitting on spelling farms until they are two and a half is not serving the interest of racing nor the owner. It is worth noting that in recent years there has been a shift in the stallion landscape. There is now a broader group of sires, especially the successful ones, who are excelling at producing precocious horses. By initiating major stake incentives and racing opportunities earlier in the season we are expecting to see horses prepared a lot quicker and competing a lot earlier. This will have a positive effect on the racing population in the months that follow the early juvenile racing and of course, highly rewards connections who are not sitting on their horses.”

With the RaceCape powered by Hollywoodbets incentive scheme recently announced, Cape Racing is continuing with its theme of innovation through rejuvenated racing programmes and prize money levels to benefit the owners, trainers, jockeys and grooms of the Western Cape

The new kids on the block at Cape Racing are impressive in that they joined this race a few weeks ago and they are 2 laps ahead of 4Q who commenced this race almost 2 years ago.

4Q is still counting their bottomless cash pile while HWB and Bortz are injecting theirs smartly to solve the stake problems that were created by 4Q captain.

SaintT you are quite accurate in your summation.

4Q stumble from cock-up to cock-up and offer 60k races for their owners while the competition announces incentive after incentive. Its boys versus men.

OTA,

I recall that GoldCircle challenged John Evans to claim from Phumelela what was due to GC. Together with HWB, GC upped their stakes drastically for the KZN season.

Savage and his RA choms did not challenge John Evans for the R330 million stakes pot liability - Owners that race in Maryland jurisdictions are feeling the adverse financial effects of these very generous RA choms that wore too many hats simultaneously. The mess that these dimwits created is slowly being cleaned up by those who understand the business of horseracing.

The jury is out on whether the 4Q ship will hit the iceberg b4 the end of this racing season - or is it more politically correct to refer to the high flying pilot’s aircraft calling out mayday mayday?

......Cape Racing has really upped the game...increased stakes and incentives will see some up country folk look for satellite yards and opportunities to send more horses to compete for incentives there.....4Q are in big trouble as their model relies on tote turnovers to generate stakes pot and with HW camping in the Cape and stamping their brand over local betting...they will squeeze 4Q revenue making it very difficult to grow any similar incentives to stop the migration....they will soon have to go cap in hand to MOD for another hand out.....:ohmy:

It is exciting times in the Cape .

My take is that the racing will be more competitive down there.

There will be less raids on PE from Cape and decent horses will come from PE and up North to the new incentives in the Cape.

Bottom line easier to win with mediocre horses up North and in PE ?