Winning Ways - Cliff Otto

Beyond The Pale wrote: Thanks for the post , I was at both match race's. The first one in Joburg I was working for either Harry Symons or Moosa Theba and I scurried off to put my day's wages on ....Brainteaser....as I was caught up in the Azzie gobshite , they were betting roughly 7/10 Brainteaser and 11/10 Divine Act. As seen it was never a race.
Sadly I think Charles van Booma lost an eye that ended his career due to being kicked by a horse in the parade ring ?

The second match race was sponsored by Winning Form at Greyville. I helped Owen Heffer and Dermot O'Connell place posters all over the race course. Señor Santa and Northern Princess over the mile. Sadly I backed the gelding who went to the front despite question marks over whether he would stay. Michael Roberts rode a peach of a race, tracked Señor Santa till the 400m pulled out from behind and it was all over. Once again I think the betting was similar with SS the favourite.

Bob Brogan wrote: Last year Legislste vs Whylie hall for the July

Gentlemen bets

Beyond The Pale wrote: Thanks for the post , I was at both match race's. The first one in Joburg I was working for either Harry Symons or Moosa Theba and I scurried off to put my day's wages on ....Brainteaser....as I was caught up in the Azzie gobshite , they were betting roughly 7/10 Brainteaser and 11/10 Divine Act. As seen it was never a race.
Sadly I think Charles van Booma lost an eye that ended his career due to being kicked by a horse in the parade ring ?

The second match race was sponsored by Winning Form at Greyville. I helped Owen Heffer and Dermot O'Connell place posters all over the race course. Señor Santa and Northern Princess over the mile. Sadly I backed the gelding who went to the front despite question marks over whether he would stay. Michael Roberts rode a peach of a race, tracked Señor Santa till the 400m pulled out from behind and it was all over. Once again I think the betting was similar with SS the favourite.

Countrymember wrote: I cant remember any match race, only the following..

It wasn’t his swansong victory, but the 1975 Jack Stubbs Memorial over 1000m at Milnerton was a cherry atop a fabulous career. On a perfect Cape summer day, seven-year-old Sentinel whipped talented speedster Harry Hotspur, with two other precocious youngsters way back in third and fourth – Archangel and Yataghan. The “Thoroughbred News’’ picture of this finish was captioned, “The result that says it all’’.

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THEY dubbed him “The Iron Horse’’ because he was the toughest and most enduring of characters.

The statistics tell the story of resilience, bravery and versatility. From 56 starts, he recorded 29 wins – with 12 Grade 1s – and 21 places.

Racing from two to seven years of age between 1971 and 1975, he travelled throughout the country and won at eight different racecourses from 1000m to 1600m. There has been no other South African horse with a record like that at the top level.

rob faux wrote:

Countrymember wrote: I cant remember any match race, only the following..

It wasn’t his swansong victory, but the 1975 Jack Stubbs Memorial over 1000m at Milnerton was a cherry atop a fabulous career. On a perfect Cape summer day, seven-year-old Sentinel whipped talented speedster Harry Hotspur, with two other precocious youngsters way back in third and fourth – Archangel and Yataghan. The “Thoroughbred News’’ picture of this finish was captioned, “The result that says it all’’.

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THEY dubbed him “The Iron Horse’’ because he was the toughest and most enduring of characters.

The statistics tell the story of resilience, bravery and versatility. From 56 starts, he recorded 29 wins – with 12 Grade 1s – and 21 places.

Racing from two to seven years of age between 1971 and 1975, he travelled throughout the country and won at eight different racecourses from 1000m to 1600m. There has been no other South African horse with a record like that at the top level.

Its why In Full Flight had to be one of the best ever...................He never lost to Sentinel or Elevation .............(in fact he beat them both by over 5 lgths in the Bull Brand international)They both became champions after his death.That is the relativity that is very special.
(The closest was when Sentinel and IFF dead heated in the Cape Guineas.)
Also versatile ..............won the July ,1 month after winning the Concorde stakes over 1000m