Would you rather.......

I'll give you a clue , the horse that won the Cape Guineas the year Horse Chestnut won the Triple Crown was trained by MDK, owned by the O's and his sire was Fort Wood........-

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> I'll give you a clue , the horse that won the Cape
> Guineas the year Horse Chestnut won the Triple
> Crown was trained by MDK, owned by the O's and his
> sire was Fort Wood........-

Another clue Pablo Zeta ran second in that same Guineas

What about winning da triple crown and daily news

In 1995 National Emblem won the Gauteng Guineas and the Classic while Teal won the SA Guineas at Greyville and the Daily News. Teal thereafter won the July. Dynasty and Big City Life followed in the same footsteps.

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> I'll give you a clue , the horse that won the Cape
> Guineas the year Horse Chestnut won the Triple
> Crown was trained by MDK, owned by the O's and his
> sire was Fort Wood........-


And how many people remembered that straight away.

Big City Life won Investic CP Derby, KRA Guineas,Daily News and July in 2009. I think Dynasty won the same race's except he won the CP Guineas not the Derby.
Still I wouldnt argue over winning any of these races. More value placed on Triple Crown though.

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> Guineas and Daily News the year Horse Chestnut won
> the Triple Crown. Probably a bit unfair as he was
> one of the best to race in SA.


Was it not Free My Heart who won the Daily News that year, beating a strongly fancied Fort Defiance??? Remember Fort Defiance running 2nd in the in the Classic and the commentator (Graeme Hawkins? "you bring him home") got carried away and said Fort Defiance will be the July winner cos Horse Chestnut was leaving the country.

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> > very few people can remember who won the Cape
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> that year, beating a strongly fancied Fort
> Defiance??? Remember Fort Defiance running 2nd in
> the in the Classic and the commentator (Graeme
> Hawkins? "you bring him home") got carried away
> and said Fort Defiance will be the July winner cos
> Horse Chestnut was leaving the country.


Correct. Free My Heart then won the KZN Derby. Intrestingly Fort Defiance won the other one of the first leg of the triple crown that year, the Gauteng Guineas.

> Correct. Free My Heart then won the KZN Derby.
> Intrestingly Fort Defiance won the other one of
> the first leg of the triple crown that year, the
> Gauteng Guineas.

yeah, striker was the jock on Fort Defiance, did he not get jocked off in the July and rode a Ferraris mare instead???

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> Big City Life won Investic CP Derby, KRA
> Guineas,Daily News and July in 2009. I think
> Dynasty won the same race's except he won the CP
> Guineas not the Derby.
> Still I wouldnt argue over winning any of these
> races. More value placed on Triple Crown though.

I think Dynasty was beaten in the CP Guineas by De Kock/Maroun horse by Dominion Royale (forgot his name)... Either way, give me the Gr1 races anyday over a triple crown which begins with a Gr2. You can't compare previous Cape Guineas Gr1 winners to Gauteng Gr2 winners, it's a joke!

Good to see the purists still remember the true champions, the ones who shape the breed and not some fizz pop #tag wannabe regional "peoples champions "

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> > Big City Life won Investic CP Derby, KRA
> > Guineas,Daily News and July in 2009. I think
> > Dynasty won the same race's except he won the
> CP
> > Guineas not the Derby.
> > Still I wouldnt argue over winning any of these
> > races. More value placed on Triple Crown
> though.
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> I think Dynasty was beaten in the CP Guineas by De
> Kock/Maroun horse by Dominion Royale (forgot his
> name)... Either way, give me the Gr1 races anyday
> over a triple crown which begins with a Gr2. You
> can't compare previous Cape Guineas Gr1 winners to
> Gauteng Gr2 winners, it's a joke!


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