GALLERY: Barahin races for charity honours
The next event at Turffontein racecourse will be the International Jockeys Challenge on November 16.
THE glamorous Charity Mile has once again produce exceptional racing for the pundits and who would ever have thought that Barahin cross the finishing line in such fine form.
The R1 million Grade 2 Peermont Emperor’s Charity Mile as held at Turffontein race course on November 2 and racing fans enjoyed a perfect day at the racing having the privilege to watch the Springboks take their third 2019 Rugby World Cup.
Once again the Charity Mile attracted a field of the country’s top racehorses that were paired with 16 well-known personalities for the benefit of 16 charities.
Callan Murray has put the Mike de Kock horse, Barahin, nose in front of a fierce field in the straight and never looked back to bring him safely home and win big for his charity on the day. Barahin was drawn well in four and Murray secured a good spot on the rail in midfield to set up the win for the R1 million Grade 2 Peermont Emperor’s Charity Mile 1 600m.
Much needed and exceptional rainfall of 37,5mm in the 24 hours before the meeting has set up testing ways for both jockey and horse which proved a vital winning point for Murray.
Barahin won by 3,50 lengths from the tall and progressive Ato gelding Chijmes, who was the leader for some time with apprentice Dennis Schwarz on his back. There was a gaping 3,25 length gap back to the dead-heaters for third, Cascapedia with a gap of 3.25lenghts came in third.
The charity who drew Barahin, Animal Allies, won the R150 000 first prize and was represented by 7de Laan star Hildegardt Whites.
The next event at Turffontein racecourse will be the International Jockeys Challenge on November 16.
The preliminaries of the Grade 3 Graham Beck Stakes over 1 400m, De Kock’s NZ-bred All Too Hard grey gelding Frosted Gold caught the eye, especially his muscled hindquarters.
However, he drifted out from 4/1 to 29/4 as the favourite Putontheredlight shortened from 33/10 to 57/20.
The race was full of incident, some of it caused by the loose horse On My Mind, who dislodged Nooresh Juglall after pecking at the jump.
Craig Zackey managed to place Frosted Gold on the rail in midfield and he had one hairy moment when the loose horse veered in front of him. Earlier, the loose horse had forced the fancied pair Eden Roc and Tallin outward on the turn. Later, Tallin appeared to clip the heels of the favourite Putontheredlight and Callan Murray performed a miracle to stay aboard but lost his stirrup irons.
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