RED RAY
Red Ray to stay in training
Nicci Garner: Mercury Sprint winner Red Ray will remain in training for another season and, providing he remains sound, will only retire to Klawervlei Stud’s stallion barn for the 2017 breeding season.
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RED RAY WINS MERCURY SPRINT
Red Ray may be retired after Mercury Sprint win
Nicci Garner: There is a possibility that Red Ray will not see a racecourse again following his impressive win in Saturday’s R800,000 Mercury Sprint (Grade 1) over 1200m at Greyville.
RED RAY
Red Ray stings in Sprint
Mike Moon: Red Ray underlined the adage that class is permanent when he bounced back to his best form – of nearly three years ago – and ran away from the opposition to record a two-length victory in the Grade 1 Mercury Sprint at Greyville on Saturday.
Mercury: trainer comments
Mike Bass
Summerveld assistant trainer Robert Fayd’herbe makes the Mike Bass stable’s two mares, Fly By Night and Lanner Falcon, big runners in Saturday’s Grade 1 Mercury Sprint, while admitting that Night Trip is “taking his chances” over a trip too sharp.
TRIP TO HEAVEN
Take a Trip To Heaven
Jack Milner: When the Grade 1 Mercury Sprint over 1200m was run at Clairwood it was raced down the straight and, as it is run under weight-for-age conditions, it made life easier for punters to find the winner.
SEAN VEALE
Drier duo the ‘dark horses’ in Mercury Sprint
Durban – The Dennis Drier yard said the respective last runs of their Grade 1 Mercury Sprint contenders, Barbosa and Triptique, could be ignored and that they had both been doing well at Summerveld.
