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SOUTH AFRICA'S SUMMER CUP SET TO BE A SCORCHER
The Straits Times
|November 26, 2024
Line-up and barriers to Africa's richest race build up momentum towards exciting finale
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The debate is already raging over who will win the Grade 1 ZAR6 million (S$445,000) Betway Summer Cup over 2,000m at Turffontein on Nov 30, after the final field was recently unveiled.
Fanciers of 5-2 favourite See It Again will be delighted that the Michael Roberts-trained three-part brother of two-time Durban July winner Do It Again drew barrier 6, which was pulled out of the barrel by the gelding's jockey Piere Strydom.
A dual Grade 1 winner of the Cape Derby and Daily News 2000 in 2023, See It Again came close to winning the July, South Africa's most famous race the same year. But he was denied by a head by the Brett Crawford-trained Winchester Mansion, who, incidentally, will be in the way again as he also contests the Betway Summer Cup.
At his last start, See It Again won his second consecutive Pinnacle Stakes (1,600m) at Greyville on Nov 3.
But it is the other Crawford ward who is drawing more attention: his mare Frances Ethel, who will be ridden by four-time UK champion jockey Oisin Murphy who is on a whirlwind visit to South Africa.
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