Chad Le Clos Scottsville Wednesday

Subject: Chad Le Clos Tries Out A New Sport

Olympic and World Champion swimming hero Chad Le Clos is “very
excited” ahead of the debut of the first racehorse he has ever
owned, the Paul Lafferty-trained Unbelievable Chad, and will be
on course at Scottsville on Wednesday to cheer him on.
Lafferty described the two-year-old Toreador colt as “a very
nice horse who should run very well” in Wednesday’s first race,
a Maiden Juvenile Plate over 1200m, under Ian Sturgeon.

Chad’s father Bert was overwhelmed when his son clinched the
Olympic 200m Butterfly gold medal in 2012 with a final lunge
that enabled him to pip swimming legend Michael Phelps.Phelps
was a hero of Chad’s and the win was unexpected.

Bert said, “When the BBC interviewed me I just couldn’t stop
saying UN-believable, UN-believable! From there the words just
stuck and they have even called Chad’s book Unbelievable! You
must understand that having come from small beginnings in
Greyville and then Pinetown, I was just so excited, it was a
moment in a million. I always say to people I am the richest
man in the world. You just can’t buy what we have.”

The BBC interview went viral on social media and this was also
partly due to Bert’s touching admiration for his “unbelievable,
most down to earth, beautiful boy“. Bert later featured in a
South African television advertisement singing the Nat King
Cole classic Unbelievable.
Chad has gone on to become both a World and Commonwealth
champion and currently holds the world short course records in
both the 100m and 200m butterfly.
Bert is a former bookmaker so knows a lot about the Sport Of
Kings.

He said, “I wanted Chad to enjoy a different outlook and
watching the horse run once every two months will be fun. He
knows absolutely nothing about the game, he has only been to
one July, but he is very excited about Wednesday.”

Bert also revealed that in everything he does Chad likes to be
a winner, so he will expect his horse to be as well prepared
for racing as he is for his swimming events.
Chad has won many admirers not only for his swimming exploits
but also for his humble nature and he will likely be a big
drawcard at the Scottsville meeting, which he will attend with
Bert, other members of the family and friends.

He owns the horse in partnership with Greg Blank, Phillip Kahan
and Bridget Conway. Kahan’s The Alchemy Stud bred the Toreador
colt.
Meanwhile, Lafferty is undergoing a second round of
chemotherapy for cancer of the lymph glands behind the stomach.
The overall condition of his body has been shown in tests to be
excellent and the prognosis for full recovery is very positive.
Lafferty’s mental strength has been “Un-believable” and he was
his normal jovial self when interviewed about Chad Le Clos’
first runner.

Whiteline Fever wrote:

Is that his colours?

What happened to the rule "a max of three colours barring white on one panel"?

Get dizzy reading it in the racecard haha - White, blue, red, black, yellow, green rings, green slvs, coll & cap

Yes that silks image is up on gallop.

Great stuff and love the name

Hope it runs a cracker for them, go you good thing :woohoo: :woohoo:

Mac wrote: What happened to the rule "a max of three colours barring white on one panel"?

Ananth Singh and his wife colours are almost similar. One is in stripes the other in circles. Ananth's colours represents the South African Flag the other the Olympic Rings

Is the going expected to be that bad that the horses will need swimming lessons?

bayern wrote: Is the going expected to be that bad that the horses will need swimming lessons?

Nah.. the rain was needed. Apparently there is more tonight and some tomorrow.
We are expecting a hot Wednesday

but Mr Ananth Singh's colours do not have more than two colours (excl white) per panel.

• Vest: 2 colours - green and yellow
• One sleeve: 1 colour - red
• The other sleeve:1 colour - blue
• Cap: 1 colour - black

Since i tweeted about Chad Le Clos having a runner at Scottsville on wednesday my twitter feed has never stopped, i will go as far as saying there is more interest in Wednesdays race than i noticed about the JULY.

I thinks it`s great and a sad indiciment at the same time