Filippo, a son of speed on speed champs Toreador out of the Var mare Wishful Eye (who defeated Val De Ra in her race career) flew home to take the feature at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday – the African Holly Non Black Type handicap.

The Piemonte Stud-bred gelding trained by Yogas Govender won under Lyle Hewitson, and defeated amongst the field Gr1 Allan Robertson winner, Vernichey.

Owned by Messrs P Rambaras, Y Naidoo, Mr J and Mrs N Deokynarain, Filippo is now a 5-time winner who has previously placed in the Listed Umgeni Handicap.

Mr Rambaras races Filippo’s full brother in partnership – Calvino is in training with Kom Naidoo and is a winner and placed four times.

There is also Aldo out of the mare, the five-time winning son of Redoute’s Promise.

Piemonte Stud have had 12 wins this season with 61 places.

Congratulations to the Scribantes and all concerned.

The Brave Tin Soldier colt Soldier On showed a smart turn of foot when coming from off the pace to win the R135 000 Egoli Mile run on the Turffontein standside on Saturday.

Marco van Rensburg had the Stuart Pettigrew trained galloper about seven lengths back after he had reared as the gates were sprung for the non black-type feature.

Turning into the home stretch, Loyal Lieutenant continued to show the way with lightly-raced recent maiden scorer Infamous Fox slipping through down the inside as Soldier On made his way down the outside.

Van Rensburg timed his move sweetly and he rode hard to stave off the determined challenge of Infamous Fox by a quarter length in a time of 100, 94 secs.

Owned and bred by Mr T Kung, Soldier On is a son of Brave Tin Soldier (Storm Cat) out of the unraced Australian-bred Rockabye Girl (Southern Image).

He is a winner of 2 races with 3 places from 6 starts for stakes of R184 550.

The Erico Verdonese trained Emerald Bay benefitted from a well-judged Craig Zackey ride to get Pick 6 punters off to a rocky start to a tough afternoon at Turffontein on Saturday.

Enjoying her handy galloping weight of 52kgs, plus a kilo over weight for Zackey’s services, Emerald Bay allowed Witchraft to do the donkey work, as she followed in stalk mode all the way round the 2400m of the R135 000 Sun Chariot Handicap.

At the 400m, Emerald Bay was given the nod and she stayed on well as Witchcraft started to labour under her weight.

Starting at 15-1, Emerald Bay was too strong and beat Summerhill-bred Gr3 winner Witchraft by 0,70 lengths in a time of 158,22 secs.

Bred by Erico Verdonese, Emerald Bay is a daughter of deceased Mullins Bay (Machiavellian) out of the three-time winner Model Emblem (National Emblem).

She has won 4 races with 7 places from 17 starts for stakes of R347 525.

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The entries for the Michael Roberts Handicap (Listed) are in and include seven KZN-breds including Crusade entry, Slightly Scottish from the yard of Dean Kannemeyer.

Doug Campbell has entered two of his ‘stalwarts’ – chestnut mare Lala and Kingston Boy – the latter a son of Mogok, who is just under R30 000 short of earnings of R1-million in stakes with 8 wins and 21 places from 54 starts.

Amongst Mark Dixon’s entries are Fantasy Lady – very closely related to the brilliant London Call and owned by the same syndicate consisting of Messrs G N Cumming, C N Larsson & R D Samuelson. Bred by Bruce Le Roux of Spring Valley Stud, she is a four time winning daughter of Kahal who has placed seven times from 15 starts.

A mare that enjoys Scottsville and won over this course and distance last time out for owner Rodney Calder and trainer Craig Eudey, Mark My Card, a half-sister to Markofdistinction and closely related to the brilliant Toccata, will also throw her hat into the ring. The daughter of Miesque’s Approval has won six and earned over R500 000 in stakes – not to shabby for a mare that was sold directly off Highdown Stud as an unraced three year old and won on debut!

The beautifully-named Slightly Scottish, a three year old son of Crusade bred and owned in partnership by the Scottish Stewart MacGregor and Ronnie Rowley, has been the picture of consistence, winning and placing from all five starts. The Crusades enjoy a mile on turf, and this should suit Slightly Scottish who has won over the distance.

21 Length marathon winner Run Rhino Run has once again changed trainers, and this time Frank Robinson has dropped the difficult but talented Silvano gelding to 1750m.

1st ENTRIES SCOTTSVILLE – Sunday 28 January 2018

R 150,000 1750m
MICHAEL ROBERTS HANDICAP (Listed)
Merit Rated Handicap
WFA: 3yrs-6.0kgs 4yrs-0.5kgs

*Horses In Bold Denote KZN-BREDS

11 CELTIC CAPTAIN (5G) 61.0 106 Mark Dixon
18 MR O’NEILL (4G) 56.0 97 Dean Kannemeyer
8 RED CHESNUT ROAD (4G) 56.0 97 Robbie Hill
19 SUN ON AFRICA (6G) 56.0 96 B Dennis Bosch
12 LALA (5M) 55.0 94 B Doug Campbell
10 CARIBBEAN DAY (8G) 54.0 92 P Mark Dixon
16 WILD WICKET (4G) 53.5 92 Duncan Howells
7 LAST TIGER (7G) 53.0 90 B Dean Kannemeyer
13 KINGSTON BOY (8G) 51.5 87 B Doug Campbell
5 RUN RHINO RUN (6G) 51.5 87 Frank Robinson
2 FANTASY LADY (5M) 51.0 86 Mark Dixon
17 CHICAGO BEAT (5G) 50.0 84 B Duncan Howells
14 GINGERBREAD MAN (4G) 49.5 84 Duncan Howells
9 SYLVESTER THE CAT (5G) 49.5 83 Glen Kotzen
3 LEGEND (4G) 49.0 83 Duncan Howells
15 SAINT MARCO (5G) 48.0 80 Garth Puller
6 DARK MOON RISING (4G) 46.5 78 Paul Lafferty
4 MARK MY CARD (6M) 45.0 74 Craig Eudey
1 SLIGHTLY SCOTTISH (3G) 41.0 78 Dean Kannemeyer
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Please Note:
Supplementary Entries Closes @ 11:00 Friday 19th January 2018
Declarations Closes @ 11:00 Tuesday 23rd January 2018

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Rikitikitana, a son of Toreador owned in partnership by Dr K G Bakos & Mr G M Bakos & Mr Clyde Basel and trained by Sean Tarry, swooped past Celtic Captain to win the Gr3 Christmas Handicap at Greyville under Lyle Hewitson.

A vendor buy-back at the 2014 KZN Yearling Sale consigned by The Alchemy, the four year old gelding won by half a length over the 1600m with Brian Burnard’s son of Captain Al finishing behind him. Budapest (Lithuanian) and Stormy Eclipse (Dynasty) placed behind Rikitikitana respectively.

This is the fourth career win for Rikitikitana, who has also placed eight times previously, including placing  behind Cutting Edge in the KZN Yearling Sale Million.

Toreador has produced a multitude of Stakes Winners to date and has to be one of the best value for money sires in South Africa. The son of Danehill stands at Bush Hill Stud, for a fee of R20 000 in 2016. He has produced the likes of Gr1 winner Link Man, Jackadore, Lazer Star, She’s A Stunner, Straight Forward, Las Ramblas and Roc ‘n Rose.

Bush Hill Stud’s son of Kahal out of Miss Andrea trained by Duncan Howells, Amazon King, beat Cutting Edge this afternoon at Greyville by over two and half lengths. Its his second win from only five starts, and he has placed twice.

His broodmare sire is Restructure and the mare has already produced the likes of course record holder, Dreya’s Gold.

She has an Irish Flame coming through, bred on the same cross that produced Legislate. Amazon King is a very eye catching quality son of Kahal, he is definitely a horse to keep on the watch list for future. This is the dam line of Uncle Tommy and Rebel King, as well as Gr2 winner King’s Temptress (by King Of Kings) who has her first yearling on sale at the upcoming CTS Premier Yearling Sale in January.

Well done to all concerned.