Royal Victory to defend crown

RECORD: YENI FEELS LAST YEAR'S WINNER CAN GIVE HIM 5TH CHAMPIONS CHALLENGE WIN

- Muzi Yeni

It's Champions Day at Turffontein tomorrow, and with four Grade 1 races headlining the action backed up by multiple other feature races, in my opinion this is the biggest meeting of the year in the province and one of the best in the country.

The headliner on the card is Race 8, the HKJC World Pool Premier's Champions Challenge over 2000m which is a race I have already won four times with horses Happy Landing, Coral Fever, Got The Greenlight and Royal Victory.

If I manage to win this on my ride Royal Victory again, I will equal Anton Marcus's record of five wins in the race which would be an amazing feat.

Also important to note is that Races 6 to 11 on this 12-race card are Hong Kong World Pool events so punters can expect massive pools to play into which is always brilliant.

Race 1 is a Juvenile Plate over 1600m and I ride Golden Warrior who is a nice horse and has had two decent runs to date. He will enjoy the step up in trip so I'll be hoping to finish in the money.

We do, however, all have Whispering Death to beat and he is the best bet on the card and should get favourite backers off to a great start.

Ideal Summer ran a really good race on debut and he looks like he'll enjoy the step up in trip, so he rates the main danger.

Race 2 is the Grade 2 Wilgerbosdrift SA Fillies Nursery over 1160m and I ride Clairwood Rose who won a lovely race on debut and with natural improvement, I'll be hoping to finish in the money. But this is a really tough assignment compared to what she beat on debut.

Glastonbury was ultra-impressive when winning the feature race last time out and a repeat of that performance will see her prove to be the runner to beat.

One Fine Winter was really impressive in her maiden win after a superb debut run in a feature race and she rates the main danger.