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BETTING World, South Africa’s corporate bookmaking chain, is to sponsor this year’s Algoa Cup to be run over 2000m at Fairview in Port Elizabeth on Sunday 25 October.The Grade 3 race is a handicap open to all horses and will carry a stake of R350,000. Supplementary entries for the race close at 9am on Thursday 8 October. Weights and draws will be announced later that day with final acceptances on Monday 19 October.
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Robert Garner
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PHUMELELA, the JSE-listed horseracing and tote betting company, is delighted to announce that the Peermont Group will sponsor the Charity Mile November Handicap to be run over 1600m at Turffontein on Saturday 7 November.
The race will be titled the Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile and will be the headline event at a 12-race meeting that will launch night racing at Turffontein. The meeting is provisionally scheduled to begin at 1.05pm with the last two races being run under lights.
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TAB is changing its Pick 6 and Jackpot carryover policy from Thursday 1 October in a move that will make both bets more enjoyable and offer bigger payouts for horseplayers.Currently Pick 6 and Jackpot carryovers go forward to the next race meeting in the racing region in which they originated with the exception of Flamingo Park fixtures in Kimberley, which go to the next weekend race meeting on the Highveld.
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THE Joint Programming Committee of Phumelela and the Racing Association is delighted to announce the introduction of two new feature races to the racing calendar.The races will be run on the Turffontein Inside Track on Saturday 10 October. They are:
- The R200 000 Joburg Spring Challenge (Listed) over 1450m
- The R150 000 Joburg Spring Fillies & Mares Challenge (Listed) over 1450m
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Phumelela's Patrick Davis
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HORSERACING and tote betting company Phumelela will spend more than R10 million on special projects during the first year of a five-year plan to upgrade facilities for horses and horsemen.For Year 1 (1 August 2009 to 31 July 2010) the bulk of this special project budget, which excludes normal maintenance and operating costs and night racing expenditure, has been allocated to Turffontein and Vaal racecourses, which also double as training centres. The big-ticket items at the two venues will be the replacement of the beach training track at Turffontein at a cost of R3.1 million and the renewal of the sand racing surface at the Vaal, which will cost R3 million.
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