DELTA FORM question

Wow what top boys were riding there, I feel we not producing as good jocks as we were back then!

I stand to be corrected but I think every jock there won a gr1 except for G Basson!

bad company Wrote:

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> Wow what top boys were riding there, I feel we not
> producing as good jocks as we were back then!
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> I stand to be corrected but I think every jock
> there won a gr1 except for G Basson!

The last really good jocks to come out the academy were the lerenas and fourie. Downhill now.

socks people? white socks - anyone know?

Delta Form was trained by Mike Bass. It raced in Saltzman's colours. Was sold over to Michael Airey and Henry Mansell and maybe a few others and won the Summer Cup from the widest draw off all. 2 cents the yellow and black was Airey's colours. I had just stopped working for Henry Mansell and was on my way to make a new life in Australia. Dunno why I came back()

The pic that Don attached was of Double Reef with KB on board. He was also owned by Len Saltzman and I believe at the time he was trained by David Payne. Saltzman had horses with a few trainers including Airey, Payne, Alexander and I'm sure a few others.
As far as I can recall Delta Form never raced in blinkers and he was a Chestnut gelding, this one looks bay or brown.

At that time though Saltzman had quite a portfolio of horses ala Clifton King (who was the only horse to ever beat Horse Chestnut), Mosszao who won the Gold bowl and a few others. He was big on Aussie/NZ imports.

That colt in the pic is definitely Double Reef and not Delta Form

DELTA FORM Brown Gelding by MARSCAY (AUS) ~ ARBOREA (AUS) DOB ~ 08/08/1996
Runs:19 Wins:6 Places:7
Owners at time of retirement ~ Mr & Mrs M A Airey & Messrs I W Geary, O V Leibbrandt, R J Simpson & B B Sinclair
Trainer at time of retirement ~ Mr M Airey



DOUBLE REEF Brown Gelding by LAST TYCOON (IRE) ~ GILADAH (IRE) DOB ~ 17/11/1996
Runs:49 Wins:11 Places:20
Owners at time of retirement ~ Messrs M C Berzack, B Joffe, G P Sadie & I Vlasic
Trainer at time of retirement ~ Mr G Alexander

Off the point a bit but here are the results from October 2000 ~

Titch Wrote:

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> DELTA FORM Brown Gelding by MARSCAY (AUS) ~
> ARBOREA (AUS) DOB ~ 08/08/1996
> Runs:19 Wins:6 Places:7
> Owners at time of retirement ~ Mr & Mrs M A Airey
> & Messrs I W Geary, O V Leibbrandt, R J Simpson &
> B B Sinclair
> Trainer at time of retirement ~ Mr M Airey
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> DOUBLE REEF Brown Gelding by LAST TYCOON (IRE) ~
> GILADAH (IRE) DOB ~ 17/11/1996
> Runs:49 Wins:11 Places:20
> Owners at time of retirement ~ Messrs M C Berzack,
> B Joffe, G P Sadie & I Vlasic
> i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af194/bidahors
> e/b3999666-4252-48e2-8073-b9bd82a28bfa.jpg
> Trainer at time of retirement ~ Mr G Alexander


dont agree with the above plus delta form went to the usa to race

Definitely correct regarding owner and trainer Delta Form could have left for overseas but was owned by given owners at the time of his last run in SA

Yeah as far as I can remember Double Reef did end up in those colors for alexander but during his 3 year old campaign he was definitely with payne owned by saltzman.

i know you guys know that, just saying

thanks Tommy Hotspur - can your remember and verify anything wrt the two hind white socks?

Sorry Don, no I don't. The only thing we can do to verify that this horse is Double Reef is to find a captioned full body pic of him and compare the two.