Horses for Causes raceday

Horses for Causes raceday
Date: 12 January 2016

Sixteen community upliftment organisations will benefit from the Horses for
Causes raceday taking place at Kenilworth this Saturday. The meeting is
part of the likely most exciting month of racing ever seen in South Africa,
so the racing will be of high class. There will be plenty of on-course
entertainment, it will be a fun family day out. It will provide a good
opportunity for the public to contribute to some worthy causes. The sixteen
charity organisations will be showcased in attractively set up marquee
tents. The un-informed will therefore be able to learn exactly of the good
work these charities do and how they benefit the under-privileged, an
aspect which is of underestimated importance to potential donators.


The meeting falls between the extremely well received L’Ormarin’s Queen’s
Plate of last weekend and the Investec day of dreams meeting in two
weekend’s time, which in turn falls a weekend before the traditional
biggest Cape Town meeting, the J&B Met. Furthermore, the CTS Premier
Yearling Sales takes place in the week before the Million Dollar. A month
of such heady excitement proves that the Sport Of Kings is in a good place
in South Africa. The participants and fans of this wonderful sport are also
renowned for their generosity and there are in fact 15 charity racedays
annually at Kenilworth alone. The sixteen charities on Saturday are sure to
experience the warmth of the racing community first hand.


The money raised will be split evenly between the participating charities.


The Gr 2 R400,000 Horses For Causes Sceptre Stakes over 1200m, a weight for
age event with penalties, is the main race on the day. It has attracted the
brilliant dual Gr 1-winner Carry On Alice as well as Gr 1-winner Fly By
Night, the talented and versatile Bichette, of whom the best has likely not
yet been seen, the up-and-coming Cosmic Light and the narrow Gr 2 runner-up
Cuvee Brut.


The balance of the field cannot be dismissed.


The supporting feature is the Listed Claremart Auction Group Jamaica
Handicap over 2000m, which provides an opportunity for fillies and mares to
increase their stud value by gaining black type.


The day will offer a fun-filled family-orientated entertainment programme
which will include mini cricket, tag rugby, celebrity sprints, live music,
dance groups and fashion soirées.


VIP hospitality at this popular race day is available in both the Peninsula
and Kenilworth Rooms. Invite friends, family, colleagues and clients and
purchase a table of 10 for R 8 000.00. This includes a delicious three
course meal, an afternoon of socialising, entertainment, horseracing,
excitement and most of all, the opportunity to support these amazing
organisations and the work that they do, be it community upliftment in
sport, education, waste recycling, music, dance, animal welfare or
assisting those with disabilities.


Contact Tracy at 021 424 5843 / 083 604 1577 or at
info@horsesforcauses.org.za for all hospitality and ticket options and
enquiries.


Horses for Causes will see the following worthy charities benefit:


· The Chaeli Campaign is an established organisation with a national
footprint that works in the disability sector, running eight programmes for
both children and adults.


· JAG Foundation was established eight years ago and uses sport and play
as a catalyst for change, exposing children in disadvantaged communities to
an alternate life path.


· Another worthy cause established eight years ago is the Kronendal Music
Academy, formed to address the ongoing lack of cultural stimulation facing
the youth and community as a whole in Hout Bay.


· The Sunflower Fund, the main beneficiary of this year’s Ladies Day at
Kenilworth, is also a beneficiary at next year’s Horses for Causes. This
organisation actively recruits members of the public to register on the
South African Bone Marrow Registry and improves the chances of life-saving
transplants for serious blood disorder sufferers.


· The Lucky Lucy Foundation is another beneficiary on this exciting race
day and is a Non-Profit, Pro-life, Pro-Quality of Life organisation that
tries to relieve the plight of severely neglected and abused township and
street animals.


· JP21 Project is a fairly new organisation founded in 2014 which was
formed to reignite the passion and enthusiasm for the game of cricket in
underprivileged communities and schools, particularly in the Western Cape
areas of Mitchell’s Plain and Strandfontein.


· The Western Cape Grooms School Trust was established in 1998 and
provides equine education, skills development of work riders and upliftment
to grooms in the Western Cape Racing Industry.


· The Africa Foundation uplifts, upskills and empowers rural communities
primarily living adjacent to conservation areas in Africa and provides
access to water and electricity, helps to establish commercial farms,
construct classrooms, build and equip media centres, build and support
clinics and provides bursaries and grants to aspirant community leaders.


· Sporting Chance is an organisation which aims to provide opportunities
for sporting achievement for children from all areas by offering
professional coaching. Their idea is to get children off the streets, or
away from computer games and televisions, and instil in them a love of
sport.


· Cart Horse Protection Association provides clinics, patrols and call out
responses, veterinary and rehabilitation services to working cart horses
and donkeys on the Cape Flats, and supports, educates and trains cart horse
owners and drivers who make use of the working cart horses as a means of
generating income, thereby protecting the working cart horses and
preventing abuse.


· Ikapa Dance Theatre utilises artistic excellent in dance as a mechanism
to create socially relevant, publicly engaging performances and provides
artistic training and life skills development for the youth in the
communities of Cape Town.


· Thrive Hout Bay’s purpose is to enable sustainable wellbeing by
nurturing nature’s diversity, through bringing the community together via
school awareness projects, and arranging and supporting events, as well as
facilitating the formation of local enterprises that benefit the community
and environment.


· Al Maktoum School of Management Excellence is Summerhill Stud’s
scholarship fund which furthers their ongoing commitment to education and
training, by awarding scholarships to members of once-disadvantaged
communities.


· Ikhaya Elite, known as “crafts with a purpose” was founded with a vision
to create an empire where those with disabilities have a workshop in their
area to maximize disabled people’s potential through enhancing their
creativity and to live self-sustaining lives.